a fact5 to Conziber OUR government threw away 6,000,000,000 against windows and doors that were barred against them, loaves of bread last year in the grain that and our aching hearts almost broke with sympathetic it permitted the manufacturer of alcoholic horror — six hundred in one hour ! But the saloons of liquors to use — enough bread to make a this country murder six hundred every two days. And pile over 4o loaves high and reaching since the six hundred perished in the Iroquois Theater around the world at the equator. This seven years ago, the saloons have murdered seven hun- would have supplied more than 6,000,000 families with dred thousand. Still the conscience of the nation sleeps, three loaves of bread every day of the year. Your bread while with ever-increasing numbers the awful procession cost you more because of this waste. moves on." The direct cost of the liquor traffic to the American E people for a recent year, as based upon the report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, is estimated at The Boy's Request $1,833,653,425. Deducting from this the license fees and I WAS called to my door one morning by a boy thirteen federal taxes ($335,000,000), the amount paid the farmer years of age, a cripple. He asked that I should talk for the materials consumed and pray with his father, ($106,230,871), and t h who was to be hanged the amount paid by the traffic next day for the murder for labor ($55,000,000), Partial (Contents of the lad's mother, and the net undisputed cost is The Liquor Traffic that I should plan to be with him and his sisters still $1,357,422,544. Adding A BLOODY MONSTER T DeWitt Talmage when the body was brought to this sum the indirect UNCLE SAM AS A FINANCIER home. I went to the jail, cost, we have for the total SERMON AT A MARYLAND DRUNKARD'S FU- cost of the liquor traffic NERAL Rev. G. R. Williamson where I found the father, who had been so crazed for the year the conserva- THE Two GLASSES (poetry), Eliza H. Morton with drink that he had not tive sum of more than $5,- TRAP REVEALED 000,000,000, which, how- the slightest remembrance OUT OF THE MOUTH OF A BOTTLE, Helen Adair of his crime. He said that ever, takes no account of THE OLD TEMPERANCE LECTURER .. ..Selected his wife had been a good the misery and sorrow WHAT LIQUOR DID FOR POKAGON'S FAMILY woman and a faithful brought into the world Mrs. E. H. Kynett through the hellish traffic. mother, and he cried as if WHICH SPIRIT? David Pau'son, M. D. If during the panic of his heart would break. RUM AND HOME (poetry), F. Frederick Bliss 1907, when " banks were The next morning I crumbling, factories clos- The Tobacco Habit made my way to the mis- erable quarters of the poor ing, and small industries CIGARETTES AND MANHOOD, Matilda Erickson children. In a little while failing, $90.000,000 in gold THE BOYS AND THE TURTLE imported from England and 0 C. Godsmark two strong officers came France could relieve these THE SINS OF THE FATHERS UPON THEIR bearing the body of the dead father in a rude pine conditions, steady the situ- CHILDREN Robert N. Wilson, M. D. box. The children gath- ation, put new life into fail- THE TOBACCO HABIT IS CURABLE ing concerns, and start the D. H. Kress, M. D. ered about his face and return to prosperity, mak- smoothed it down with ing the difference between kisses, and between their panic and normal business sobs cried out, " Papa was conditions, is it not evident that an influx of $5,000,000,- good, but whisky did it." In my heart I said, " In the 000 into value-producing trade channels by the elimina- whole history of this accursed traffic there has not been tion of the liquor traffic would revolutionize the commer- enough revenue to pay for one such scene," and I there cial world "? Prove it by trial. promised God to vote to save my country from this ter- At the close of last year over 400,000 persons were rible wrong.— Selected. alive in the United States who would have died that year if the death-rate of thirty years ago had still pre- ive Dollars for the Collection vailed. In view of this fact does the effort made to save ONE Sunday morning in the prohibition campaign of those lives by civic and philanthropic organizations seem Oregon, Rev. Clarence True Wilson was taking an offer- too great? ing for the county work in Klamath Falls, when one of Every day still, American lives equaling the crews of the brightest men at the bar of that city arose, and two battle-ships are lost from preventable diseases. This said: — means that American lives equaling the present population Doctor, here is a five-dollar bill. That is just one sixth of of the Pacific Coast and Rocky Mountain States, or nearly what I used to spend over these bars every month for the stuff 7,000,000 lives, will be needlessly destroyed during the that ruined me, drove my practice from me, closed my law office, next ten years if the present death-rate from preventable separated my wife and children from me, and left me a loafing vagabond, wandering these streets and begging my neighbors, as causes continues. Stop the manufacture and importation I would meet them one by one on the streets, to lend me an- of liquor and you will save hundreds of thousands of these other nickel to get that one more drink; but two years ago this people voted the saloons of this county closed. That gave me at one stroke. my first chance. I might have found liquor if I had hunted it. " When a theater burned in one of our great cities But for the first time in my life, I was living where the saloons and six hundred men, women, and children were suffo- were not hunting me. For these two years I have not touched a drop of liquor. I am a sober man, and once more I have a cated and roasted alive in one hour, the whole nation happy family with me and money I can give away; and if you shuddered. We seemed to hear the helpless screams of voters will only keep the saloons of Klamath County closed another two years, when Mr. Wilson comes back to take another the children, and see them beating their burning hands collection I shall be able to multiply this one five times. 0 0 DV

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(Excerpts from one of Mr. Talmage's sermons.) if the bones of all those who have fallen as a prey to OSEPH'S brothers dipped his coat in goat's dissipation could be piled up, they would make a vaster blood, and then brought the dabbled garment pyramid. Who will gird him- to their father, cheating him with the idea self for the journey, and try that a ferocious animal had slain Joseph. with me to scale this moun- Thus they hid their infamous behavior. But tain of the dead, going up there is no deception about that which we hold up to miles high on human carcasses your observation today. A monster such as never ranged to find still other peaks far African thicket or Hindustani above, mountain over moun- jungle has tracked this land, tain white with the bleached and with bloody maw has bones of drunkards? strewn the Continent with the We have, in this country, at mangled carcasses of whole various times tried to regulate generations; and there are this evil by a tax on whisky. • • tens of thousands of fathers You might as well try to reg- ulate the Asiatic cholera or - • \f"-- and mothers who could hold " It has turned the earth into tip the garment of their slain the smallpox by taxation. 0, a place of skulls." boy, truthfully exclaiming, the folly of trying to restrain " It is my son's coat; an evil an evil by government tariff ! If every gallon of whisky beast hath devoured him." made, if every flask of wine produced, should be taxed a There has, in all ages and thousand dollars, it would not be enough to pay for the climes, been a tendency to tears it has wrung from the eyes of widows and orphans, nor for the blood it has dashed on the Christian church, the improper use of stimu- Happy temperance home. lants. Noah took to strong nor for the catastrophe of the millions it has destroyed drink. By this vice, Alexander the Conqueror was con- forever. quered. The Romans at their feasts fell off their seats I sketch two houses in one street. The first as bright with intoxication. Today a great multitude, which no man as home can be. The father comes at nightfall, and the can number, are the votaries of alcohol. To it they bow. children run out to meet him. Bountiful evening meal; Under it they are trampled. In its trenches they fall. On gratulation and sympathy and laughter; music in the its ghastly holocaust they burn. Could the muster-roll of parlor; fine pictures on the walls; costly books on the this great army be called, and could they come up from table; well-clad household; plenty of everything to make the dead, what eye could en- dure the reeking, festering putrefaction? What heart could endure the groan of agony? Drunkenness! Does it not jingle the burglar's key ? Does it not whet the assassin's knife? Does it not cock the highwayman's pistol? Does it not wave the in- cendiary's torch? Has it not sent the physician reeling into the sick-room, and the minister with his tongue thick, The legalized outlaw. into the pulpit ? Did not an home happy. House Same home after liquor gained an entrance. exquisite poet, from the very the second: Piano top of his fame, fall a gib- sold yesterday by bering sot into the gutter, on his way to be married to the sheriff; wife's furs at pawnbroker's shop; clock gone; one of the fairest daughters of New England, and at the daughter's jewels sold to get flour; carpets gone off the very hour the bride was decking herself for the altar? floor; daughters in faded and patched dresses; wife sew- and did he not die of delirium tremens, almost unattended, ing for the stores; little child with an ugly wound on her in a hospital? Tamerlane asked for one hundred and face, struck by an angry blow; deep shadow of wretch- sixty thousand skulls with which to build a pyramid to edness falling in every room. The doorbell rings —little his honor. He got the skulls, and built the pyramid. But children hide, daughters turn pale, wife holds her breath. Blundering step in the hall ; will hunt him down, and how shall we shoot him? I door opens; fiend, brandishing answer, First by getting our children right on this sub- his fist, cries, " Out ! out ! ject. Let them grow up with an utter aversion to strong What are you doing here?" drink. Teach them, as faithfully as you do the truths Did I call this house the sec- of the Bible, that rum is a fiend. Take them to the ond ? No, it is the same almshouse, and show them the wreck and ruin it works. house. Rum transformed it. Walk with them into the homes that have been scourged Rum imbruted the ma n. by it. If a drunkard has fallen into a ditch, take them Rum sold the shawl. Rum right up where they can see his face, bruised, savage, tore up the carpets. Rum and swollen, and say, " Look, my son, rum did that." shook his fist. Rum desolated Lopking out of your window at some one who, intoxi- the heaith. Rum changed cated to madness, goes through the street brandishing that paradise into a hell. his fist, blaspheming God, a howling, defying, shouting, I sketch two men that you reeling, raving, and foaming maniac, say to your son, know well. The first was " Look, that man was once a child like you." As you " Stand not between a man and his cups." graduated from one of our go by the grog-shop, let the children know that that is literary institutions. His father, mother, brothers, and the place where men are slain and their wives made sisters were present to see him graduate. They heard the paupers and their children slaves. A man laughed at applauding thunders that greeted his speech. They saw my father for his scrupulous temperance principles, and the bouquets tossed to said : " I am more his feet. They saw liberal than you. I the degree conferred always give my chil- and the diploma dren the sugar in the given. He had never glass after we have looked so well. Ev- been taking a drink." erybody said, " What Three of his sons a noble brow ! What have died drunkards, a fine eye! What and the fourth is im- graceful manners! becile through intem- What brilliant pros- perate habits. pects ! " Again : we shall Man the second: grapple this evil by Lies in the station voting only for sober house. The doctor men. How m any has just been sent men are there who for to bind up the can rise above the gashes received in a feelings of partizan- fight. His hair is s h i p, and demand matted and makes that our officials shall him look like a wild be sober men ? The beast. His lip is question of sobriety bloody and cut. Who is higher than the is this battered and question of availabil- bruised wretch that ity ; however eminent was picked up by the a man's services may police and carried in be, if he has habits drunk and foul and of intoxication, he is bleeding? Did I call unfit for any office in him man the second ? the gift of a civilized He is man the first. people. 0 u r laws R u m transformed will be no better than him. Rum destroyed the men who make his prospects. Rum them. Cast politics disappointed parental The empty stocking. aside, then, and vote expectation. R u m only for sober men. withered those garlands of commencement day. kum We expect great things from asylums for inebriates. cut his lip. Rum dashed out his manhood. Rum, ac- They haVe already done a good work. I think that we are cursed. rum ! coming at last to treat inebri- This foul thing gives one swing to its scythe, and our ation as it ought to be treated; best merchants fall; their stores are sold, and they sink namely, as an unlawful dis- into dishonored graves. Again it swings its scythe, and ease, self-inflicted, to be sure, some of our physicians fall into suffering that their wisest b u t nevertheless a disease. prescriptions cannot cure. Again it swings its scythe, Once fastened upon a man, and ministers of the gospel fall from the heights of Zion, sermons will not cure him, with long-resounding crash of ruin and shame. Some of temperance lectures will not your own households have already been shaken. This eradicate it. Once under the serpent does not begin to hurt until it has wound round power of this awful thirst, the and round. Then it begins to tighten and strangle and man is bound to go on ; and crush until the bones crack, and the blood trickles, and if the foaming glass were on the eyes start from their sockets, and the mangled wretch the other side of perdition, he cries, " 0 God ! help ! " But it is too late. would wade through the fires " Opening the gate to a I have shown you the evil beast. The question is, Who of hell to get it. A young lost world." 2 man in prison had such a strong thirst for intoxicating He made that offer all over this country, and no one liquors that he cut off his hand at the wrist, called for ever took it up, until one day out in Iowa, a gentleman a bowl of brandy in order to stop the bleeding, thrust stood and said, " I think I can tell you one class." his wrist into the bowl, and then drank the contents. " What's that?" Stand not, when the thirst is on him, between a man and " The undertaker." his cups. Clear the My friend was about to unchain his watch and track for him. hand it over, when an old man arose, and said: Away with the chil- " Hold on ! Before you give away that watch, dren! he would allow me to say that I have been the undertaker tread their life out. in this community for thirty-five years, and I have Away with the buried a great many of that kind of people; but wife! he w ou Id whenever I am called upon to lay away an old dash her to death. soak or any member of his family, I always know Away with the it's a charity job; that I shall never get my cross! he would run money. I should be thirty-five thousand dollars it down. Away better off today if I had never had to bury one with the Bible ! he such case."—"Dry or Die." would tear it up for the winds. Away Personal Liberty witl the heaven ! Religious Telescope he considers it WE confine the insane and epileptic, and isolate Brood of the liquor traffic — crime, poverty, drunk- worthless as a enness, and immorality. Shall we foster or contagiously diseased, but permit the drunkard ab- destroy these undesirables? straw. " Give me solute freedom of indulgence. Yet when we sug- the drink ! Give it to me ! " There is no home so beau- gest the rational thing to do, the saloon apologist cries tiful but it may be devastated by the awful curse. It out against encroachment upon personal liberty. Indi- throws its jargon into the sweetest harmony. vidual liberty of conscience, thought, and action, within Have nothing to do with strong drink. It has, turned certain limitations, is the priceless heritage of every the earth into a place of skulls, and has stood opening American; and it is a principle that should be guarded the gate to a lost world to let in its victims, with jealous vigilance. It is the until now the door swings no more upon its ideal political state of man, but is hinges, but, day and night, stands wide open to subject to one other principle,— the let in the agonized procession of doomed men. comfort, virtue, and welfare of the community. To the Saloon-Keeper Absolute personal freedom is im- If woe be pronounced possible. It is the dream of the upon the man who gives anarchist only. Wherever there is his neighbor drink, how many woes must be hang- a law, and law is necessary for ing over the man our very existence, there are checks who does this every and limitations on personal liberty. day and every hour In fact, every law of God and man of the day ! Do not restricts the liberty of the individ- think because human ual. We deny the right of the government may li- highwayman to take money or prop- cense you that there- erty by force. We deny the right f o r e God licenses of the thief to take things of value you. No enactment, Madam, we pay for all the privileges we get. by stealth. We deny the right of national, State, or municipal, can give you the right to the embezzler to take by deceit. We deny the right carry on a business whose effect is destruction. of the property owner to construct buildings of inflam- I tell you plainly that you will meet your customers one mable materials within the fire-limits of the city. We day when there will be no counter between you. When deny the sportsman the right of killing game out of your work is done on earth, and you enter the reward season. We deny the right of marriage without license of your business, all the souls of the men whom you have destroyed will, as it were, crowd around you, and pour their bitterness into your cup. They will show you their wounds and say, " You made them; " and point to their unquenchable thirst and say, " You kindled it ; " and rat- • jet,441m_ tle their chains and say, " You forged them." Then their united groans will smite your ear; and with the hands out of which you once picked the sixpences and dimes they will push you off the verge of great precipices; while rolling up from beneath, and breaking away among the crags of death, will thunder, " Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink!"

Lincoln said, " Give your boys a chance." One Class Benefited by Saloons Don't force them to pass through such temptation. I HAVE a friend who lectures on temperance. He is more dramatic than some of us. At one point in his lec- and prescribed ceremony. Why, then, should we not, in ture he takes out his gold watch, and holding it toward his perfect harmony with our institutions and the funda- audience, says, " I will give this watch to any one present mental principles of our government, eliminate the great- who will arise and tell me one class of people in this est plague-spot in our social organism ?— Gov. M. E. world that has ever been benefited by the saloon." Hay of Washington. 3 itAncte am az a 'manner NDUSTRY alone, though it pours into one's would it be right or wise for him to bring upon his citi- coffers a continuous stream of gold, will zenship all the misery, sorrow, degradation, crime, pau- not necessarily make one rich. The gold perism, and insanity that are everywhere recognized as must be conserved and rightly invested. incident to traffic in the hellish drink? Lack of economy and wise investment may Financial success demands that governments as well as altogether counteract the beneficent results of an other- individuals have the scientific searchlight turned full and wise profitable industry. Our government may be a good clear upon their business methods, in order to discover producer; but if it is not a wise Conserver, the results every possible source of waste; for the close relation will be disastrous to continued financial success. In of the two is conceded in the recognized fact that "the view of the financial wastes that characterize Uncle Sam's history of progress is largely the history of elimination business methods, we are forced to ques- tion the soundness of his financial policy. For example: — Although our fisheries comprise one of our country's greatest industries, valued at $67,898,859 a year, Uncle Sam expends, in less than 12i days, for liquor — an abso- lute waste more than the fisheries pro- duce throughout the year. MORE TRAi VALUE °FALL HALF THE In 25 days more he throws away for YEA NE Mori mmeD PRODUCT OF IN A YEAR this same waste product more than all the WHEAT V19.1757000- 4621,442,00 SPE NT FOR TRROwri Ay4A, LIQUOR ,. value of the gold and silver mined in a Wi 37; DAYS 76& DAY whole year, $128,128,600. In the next 76i days he casts aside as worthless all the iron mined during the year, $419,175,000. In a little over 3 months more he throws away all the coal mined during the year, $554,902,000. In the next 57§ days he throws away more than what is obtained from the cus- toms tariff duties, $314,497,071. In the next 361 days the great 1912 cop- per output of $20o,000,000 is sacrificed. In the next month Uncle Sam deliber- ately throws away one third of the annual Uncle Sam — the great waster. appropriation for public-school expendi- tures, $500,000,000. In the next 37i days, completing the of waste." Germany has been enriched yearly by more year, he throws away one half of the year's product of than $200,000,000 through improvements in utilizing waste wheat, $621,442,000. products in her chemical industries alone. The annual Thus in one year through this worse than useless traf- saving of waste in our steel industry amounts to millions fic nothing is realized from our great fisheries, our cop- of dollars; and when the eye of science was turned upon per-, iron-, coal-, gold-, and silver-mines, from the tariff, coal-tar, the waste product of the coal industries, a plan and from one half of our wheat crop. was devised for saving other millions each year. If all this waste had been cast directly into the sea, Science, statesmanship, and commercialism assert that the loss to the country would not have been nearly so the liquor traffic entails greater annual waste to this great as it was by having to travel the devious path of government than all other industries combined, the direct the liquor dealer's till. cost of the liquor that Americans consume each year, The money Uncle Sam deliberately wastes in this way after taking out the revenue, being enough to support 3,000,000 families. Prohibi- ,Mlit tion of the manufacture and • • . r . ZonrO.l" sale of this altogether harm- Sixteen ears, each holding 50 tons, are required to transport the world's output of gold for 1911. Ten times as many cars would be required to transport the gold ful product would eliminate annually wasted on the liquor traffic. this enormous waste; and each year would build the Panama Canal, support both the while it would involve the loss of a considerable revenue Army and Navy Departments, run the United States when measured in dollars and cents only and without Post-office Department, the legislative, judicial, and ex- taking into account the large financial gain incident upon ecutive branches of the government, and care for all its elimination, an annual tax of only three and one-half paupers and criminals and idiotic and insane persons cents a person would more than make up this loss. there would be throughout the. land were there no liquor Search the whole world through and not a sane person traffic. could be found who would not gladly give this meager It is true that our government, through the internal sum to save the heartaches and sorrows caused even revenue tax and the license fee upon liquor, does get one of the 8,000,000 families that suffer directly from back in hard cash some of this great waste. But it the liquor traffic. amounts only to what Uncle Sam throws away in two May it not be that our government will soon arouse to months, $335,000,000, which is less than the value of the the utter failure of the liquor traffic as a business, moral, iron alone mined during the year. or civic proposition, and deal with it as with other rec- But suppose he got every dollar of it back in revenue, ognized evils — exterminating it, root and branch?

4 Liquor Traffic li)etp5. Labor, ifytp5 Ti3u5Inc55 OR every million dollars of capital invested, an industry which pays only $91 in wages for every mil- steam railway cars and shop construction lion of capital, while the average is $450 for each million employ 1,612 persons; manufacturers of of capital ; or, in other words, it employs only 91 men women's clothing, 1;63 persons; boots and where other industries would on an average employ 45o. shoes, 1,2221 hosiery and, knit goods, 973; An old Chinese ruler once said, " If one of my subjects umber and timber products, 783; while for malt, distilled does not labor, there is some one in my country who malt, and vinous liquors together only 91 persons are suffers from hunger and cold." And this holds good in employed. The liquor industry thus keeps 226,690 wage- the case of most of our 3,000,000 unemployed men. Again earners out of em- this is the way the liquor traffic helps labor. It keeps the ployment in the job away from the laborer. United States; or, Instead of helping labor, " the liquor traffic is a pirate, in other words, if a pirate on the high seas of commerce. It takes from the $631,447,598 the producing power of vast millions, and it gives nothing capital employed of real worth in return. It shortens the life of the labor- as many persons ing man; it decreases the number of days of his pro- as all other manu- ductive energy; it paralyzes his arm; it excludes him from facturers average, many lucrative and honorable employments. It is the 284,151 persons incubus today that is preventing labor in America from would be employed coming to her just reward." instead of 0,461. Forty-nine fiftieths of all the bad debts of the grocery This is how the store or the dry-goods store are due to the competition of liquor business the legalized saloon, which picks the pockets of men be- " helps " the labor- fore they pay their honest debts. This is the way the ing man. traffic helps the merchant and the grocer. Be not de- Copyright Myron A. Waterman ceived. The liquor traffic helps no individual, no business. " Saloons Help Business." You can The United see for yourself. States Census re- ports show that the manufacture of liquor consumes only $129,851,855 worth of material in producing $471,015,455 Prohibition Newspaper Notices worth of products; or in other words, in the manufacture WHEN a strong temperance wave starts in a city or of liquor only 27 per cent of the products' value goes village, there are always those who say, " Prohibit the for material. All other manufacturers consume $8,374,- liquor traffic in the town and you will ruin the place." 097,901 worth of material in producing $14,331,131,632 A city or village is composed of individual homes, and worth of products, or 58.5 to ruin them collectively, at per cent of the products' least very many of them, value goes for material. In they must be ruined indi- the flour- and grist-mill vidually. And if it is done products 87 per cent of by prohibition as it is done their value goes for ma- by the liquor traffic, then terial; in the sugar and we might look in the papers molasses refining 88.5 per of a " dry town " for locals cent of the products' value like these: — goes for material; in the ANOTHER HOME RUINED BY smelting and refining of TEMPERANCE. As Mr. A., who lead, 91 per cent. Since in ' Principles of Public Health" lives on Mud Flat, has not been the case of liquor only 27 The mind unclouded by alcohol The mind clouded by alcohol able to procure sufficient liquor and tobacco works quickly and tobacco works slowly to enable him to get drunk since per cent goes for material, and accurately. and inaccurately. the town went dry six months agriculture, mining, and other industries are deprived of ago, his family is in great distress, having been without food for several days. Yesterday Mr. A. pawned his wife's only dress $145,692,186, by the liquor traffic. This is the way the to raise a few nickels for the temperance cause. liquor traffic " helps " business. A VERY SAD CASE—TOO MUCH TEMPERANCE. Mr. B. has not The liquor traffic causes a loss in productive power of been able to get a drink of whisky or beer for the past six months, and as a consequence yesterday he had a sober temper- from eight to thirty per cent. A great shovel manufac- ance fit, and beat out the brains of his little three-year-old turing concern produced, with 375 men employed, eight daughter, who ran out to meet him on his return home from per cent more in a given time of one year than it did his work, and on entering the hovel where they live he nearly killed his wife. the corresponding time of the next year with 400 men. All other conditions were the same, except that the pro- Such things as the foregoing never come as the result hibitory law had been repealed. Mr. Carnegie emphasizes of temperance, and the prohibition of the liquor traffic; his belief in the power of alcohol to lessen one's working but they are efficiency by paying ten per cent more than the agreed charged by the wages to each employee on his Skibo estate who does not thousands drink during the year. to the liquor Careful study by a German physician has shown that business. L e t alcoholic workmen between the agei of twenty-five and men find one forty-four years have over three times as many accidents home ruined by resulting' in injuries as all the other workmen put to- temperance and gether, and twice as many days of sickness as abstainers. prohibition be- These are other ways the traffic helps the laboring men. fore they fear Three million Americans are out of work, because the for a whole city. Patriotic Post-card Company liquor traffic has tied up more than a billion dollars in Helps the saloon-keeper's business, but W. M. 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HE scene before us is sad beyond all power satanic clutches around the throat of every man, woman, of description. It is not my business as a and child in our fair land. minister to apologize for the mistakes of I want to say here that to my personal knowledge Clyde the dead man whose body lies in this casket. Liller did make a struggle, and a brave one, to stem the " In the place where the tree falleth, there tide and free himself from the manacles that bound him it shall be." Our limitations are such that we see through hand 'and foot. When he would go to work in the hope a glass darkly, and it is not always possible to tell how the that he was victor, on his way to the shop his nostrils tree falls. It is customary to exalt the virtues of the dead were greeted with the stench of the foul poison; boon and to minimize their faults, while we exalt the faults companions were ready to lure him away from all his of the living and minimize their virtues. God would good resolutions; men were ready to take his last nickel have us do justice to both the dead and the living. We in exchange for the vile stuff, regardless of the protests who are living demand justice if we are the object of of his innocent wife; every fiber of his being was crying criticism. Our demands are not so imperative if some out for alcohol. He fell time and again only to get up one else is the object. Certainly, and make a brief struggle and fall again, until, a hopeless, if the pale lips before us could helpless wanderer, away from home and friends, the tired speak, we should hear only a mild body lay down to sleep the dreamless sleep. Such is the demand for simple justice. picture, the awful tragedy, of one human life. But we Clyde Liller's sun has gone make in this country ioo,000 drunkards' graves a year, down while it is yet day. When 277 each day. During this funeral hour eleven other of he should have been at his best, our fellow citizens will go in the same way. And thus the in the prime of manhood's powers, miserable work goes on from year to year. the supporter and defender of his The miserable grog-shop, with its doors always open, family, taking his place as a citi- was sufficiently powerful to overbalance any influence zen in a great republic, bearing for good, and thus the effort to save Clyde Liller under his share of life's burdens, sud- "It pulverizes the hu- the present conditions was vain. He tried working in a denly the light went out. When man heart." dry town, but the national government itself is in the himself, Clyde Liller was a generous, large-hearted miserable liquor business, and for the small pittance of man. His wife has said more than once to the speaker, $25 will give a man a federal license. So when a poor " When Clyde is sober, one could not wish for a drunkard wants to free himself from his slavish chains, better husband, a better father." But when whisky he may go from Maine to Cal fornia, from the Gulf to goes in, the man goes out. Social life in America is the Lakes, and on every foot such that the man with a weakness for alcohol has a of territory over which Old tremendous battle to fight, and in most instances is the Glory waves her proud folds, , loser. At sometime, I know not when, Clyde Liller he is hounded and hunted by tasted the poison, and later found the scripture true, this monster, until at last, like " At last it biteth like a serpent, and stingetli like an poor Clyde, he lies down to the adder." The habit once contracted, its effects felt, his sleep that knows no waking. will-power weakened, it got beyond his control, until the Somebody is to blame. This finished product, the legitimate fruit of the American sa- poor body is a murdered body, loon, lies a helpless corpse before us. A woman has been and the murderer goes scot- made a widow, three children made orphans, because the free in this great land of free- liquor traffic pays revenue, and some men will sell it re- dom,— this land of churches, gardless of the widow's cry and the orphan's wail. boasting one hundred thou- Some one is saying, " He ought to have let it alone sand pastors; this land of " Never taste or handle the accursed stuff." when he saw he could not control it." 0, yeS, how easy colleges and universities; this to say that, and how little it means ! That strong man land that has been styled " God's last chance for the who boasts that he can take it or let it alone, usually human race,"— goes on murdering other wives' husbands, takes it, and sooner or later becomes a hopeless wreck other children's fathers, other mothers' sons; goes on rul- himself. Another says, " Let whisky alone and it will ing Congress, dominating State legislatures, intimidating let you alone." This is another assertion as false as town and city councils, and throttling the voice of the Satan himself. These innocent children let it alone, but it pulpit. did not let them alone. This heart-broken widow let it Lincoln said, " This nation can't live half slave and alone, but it would not let her alone. Either directly or half free." Neither can it live half drunk and half sober. indirectly this horrible monster, the liquor traffic, has his Sin will down any of us; even in the strongest of men it 6 is too mighty to contend against unaided. The greatest saloons are not alone in this. Others are responsible. delusion in this world is that you can build yourself up When we get to the judgment, the man who made the by tearing somebody else down, or that success can be foul stuff, the man who sold it, the man who gave it reaped out of the frailties and misfortunes of others. to him when he could not buy it, the man who is bonds- Upon this false principle the licensed liquor traffic acts. man for the saloon-keeper, the citizen who by his silence By this delusion the people of this fair town allow the or vote indorses the 'liquor traffic, will all come up with accursed, stenchful, blackening, damning institution, the fingers streaming red in the blood of poor Clyde Liller, licensed saloon,— an institution that fosters and perpet- who fell a helpless victim into uates an evil almost as old as sin itself; an evil haggard, the clutches of the liquor traffic. monstrous, furious, and diabolical, that for ages And now a word to these two 'has walked and crawled the earth; combining all precious boys : Hear me today. that is obnoxious in the You are old enough to know races of men. It has what I am saying. Ycu will gored with its horns, it has never forget this hour. You torn with its tusks, it has have been left without a fa- crushed with its hoofs, it ther at this early period in has poisoned with its your lives, and will have strug- fangs, it has stung with its gles in life and heavy bur- insectile javelin, greater dens to bear, but I beg of numbers of the human you today, resolve down deep race than have perished in your hearts never to taste, from all other causes handle, or have to do with combined. It bribes, that which caused your poor lures, decoys, charms, fas- father's untimely death. Stay cinates, tempts, and se- with your mother, encourage duces ; it has the eye of her, support her, be honest and an eagle, the tooth of a true, and the world will give rattlesnake, the jaw of a you a place, and you can make a living in it. crocodile, t h e crushing " All in the same boat." coils of a boa-constrictor, And to this widow let me the slyness of the scorpion, and the folds of the worm say: You have the heartfelt sympathy of this congrega- that dieth not. It has cheated and deceived the nations. tion. You have my prayers, and in your hours of lone- By our false system of regulation, or attempted regula- liness when dark shadows gather around and life's storms tion, it hisses, it lies, it cheats, it debauches, it kills. I threaten to dash your frail bark to pieces, may you hear hate it with an everlasting, uncompromising hatred. above the roar of the conflict the voice of Christ saying: It puts its poison talons on the home, and robs it of its " It is I ; be not afraid." " Peace, be still." And the furnishings. It takes the clothes from off the backs of voice that silenced the waves of old Galilee will still innocent, helpless children and shoes from off their feet. your troubled soul, until at last the day breaks and the It brings mothers to the wash-tub and scrub-brush, and shadows forever flee away. straps burdens on their shoulders too heavy to be borne. To this congregation : May you all live so that at last It dashes out brains and pulverizes the human heart. It when you are called to answer the roll-call of the skies, fills the poorhouses, the penitentiaries, the lunatic asylums, you may be numbered with those who shall hear the and the hospitals. It peoples words: " Come, ye blessed our graveyards with the flower of my Father, inherit the of our manhood. kingdom prepared for you Whose boy will now take the from the foundation of place of Clyde Liller? Some- the world."— Selected. body's will. It may be yours. To you men who are before me: The griefs, the scalding How an Old Toper tears, the deferred hopes, the Voted strangled aspirations of this THE story is told of an woman ought to lead every man o 1 d village toper who U.S . of you to lay the ax of absolute GOVERVETIT went to the polls on one prohibition at the root of our PERMIT election morning and DEBAUCH asked for a prohibition license system and rest not till AND ROB the whole tree is burned up root and THEYOUTH ballot. T h e bystanders AL, branch in the fires of a holy and right- ,AMEM C scoffed a n d sneered at eous indignation. As you behold the him when he cast a tem- wound, will you not bring the healing perance vote. balm? As you witness the bondage, " A pretty temperance will you not seize the hammer and strike voter you are," said one. off the manacles that bind at this very " Why, if there was a bot- hour so many citizens of Garrett Taking a "reward against the innocent." Ps. 15:5.- tle of whisky yonder at County? I know full well that criticism will be heaped the top of that liberty-pole, and if you could have the on me for saying this today. I have weighed every word whisky by climbing the pole at the risk of your life, you and am prepared for the consequences: But I will not know you'd climb." The drunkard straightened himself stand by and see a man cut down by liquor and witness up as best he might, and said : " Know it ! " 0, yes, I the wreck and ruin of a home without raising my voice know it ! And I know another thing, gentlemen : If the in solemn protest against the liquor traffic, at whose door whisky wasn't there, I wouldn't climb." lies the responsibility of Clyde Liller's murder. My business. your business, is to see that " the whisky I am going. to say something else. The men who run isn't there." If we vote right, that will do it, too. 7 3n5anitp inb Venereal )11tsea5ez HE total num- contracted through brothels, which are allies of the saloon. Tber of students Destroy the liquor traffic and 'you destroy syphilis and enrolled in 1910 in its twin disease, gonorrhea, the disease that is the most all colleges and uni- frequent cause of blindness in children. It is also said to versities in the be the cause of a large share of all the abdominal opera- United States was tions on women, the innocent as well as the guilty. 184,712. The num- Were it not for the liquor traffic, a large per cent of. ber of insane per- the world's immorality would not exist. To have a sound sons in institutions physical citizenship it is absolutely necessary to destroy Jan. 1, 1910, was the liquor traffic, for it can never be divorced from im- 187,454, more by 2,- morality, and immorality cannot be divorced from the 742 than all the stu- worst of diseases. The Pioneer Modern methods of examination show that almost one Disease: " Glad to see you, sir. You are dents in our univer- the best friend I have." sities and colleges. hundred per cent of prostitutes have syphilis, and all, If the United States Army and Navy should to a man clandestine or public, have acute or chronic gonorrhea. pass in review before President Wilson, there would not These loathsome diseases wholly unfit one for associa- be so many today by 44,759 as there are insane persons in tion with other people. Anything the diseased one touches our asylums. may be infected, and any innocent person touching a The population of Columbus, Ohio, is 181,511, more public towel, cup, or seat, may contract the disease, which than 6,000 less than the country's insane. More than may cover him with unsightly sores and deformities, and thirty thousand new in time cause, loss of sufferers from mental 41"' mind, or inability to disease a r e entering take any part as a pro- our public and private The Two Glasses ducer in the world of hospitals each year. HIS is the glass of woe that sparkling stands work. The annual eco- Glowing like magic wands,— We are told that if The deceptive glass that steals nomic loss to the From the old and the young a heart that feels, we let the liquor traf- country of its insane And gives in return that which reveals fic alone, it will let us is greater than the The darkness dire of sin, a 1 o n e. But medical value of its exports of Where the cold, damp tombs rise with snakes and bones science everywhere is within. wheat, flour, tobacco, sending forth the cry, corn, beef, and other HIS is the glass of joy which gives one health, " Beware ! you may not beef products, which A harbinger of wealth,— touch anything with The glorious glass from springs impunity that a syphi- amount to $150,672,- In the far meadows where the bluebird sings 024 annually. With dews of morning upon its wings, litic has touched; and One of our States Where clover tops are red, as long as drink and that cares for all its And butterflies repose upon a grassy bed. impurity are so closely Eliza H. Morton. insane in State hospi- associated as they are today, you are exposed tals, expends for its 4— 11011111M11110111111H.limmii menalt, ins an e twenty-three on every hand to the per cent of its annual appropriation, and twenty-four per possibility of contracting one of the fatal venereal dis- cent for education. eases." If all this insanity were a necessity, it would be pitiable In one of our cities with a population of only 600,000, indeed; but when a large percentage is preventable, it be- there were estimated to be in 1911, 14,423 cases of ve- comes both pitiable and reprehensible. Justice Hughes of nereal diseases. the United States Supreme Court once said that it is So rapidly are these diseases spreading, so virulent are estimated that avoidable causes of insanity account for they in their effect, that to combat them the popular about fifty per cent of the patients under treatment. If the government has it within its power to prevent fifty per cent, or any per cent, of insanity, and fails to -/ 111111111111ii do it, it is responsible, morally and financially, for the consequent insanity to its citizens. If a breach of prom- ise is sufficient basis for a damage suit; if an accident is sufficient for one to lay claim to remuneration, then loss of mental balance due to the neglect of the govern- ment to establish necessary preventive conditions is alto- gether just cause for a damage claim. Whence All This Preventable Insanity? A contagious and infectious germ disease known as syphilis is the direct cause of three kinds of brain dis- ease, which represent at least one tenth of the admis- sions to insane hospitals. Most cases of insanity caused by this disease are incurable by any means known to med- ical science. If the ravages of this one disease could be stopped, much of the worst insanity would not exist. Syphilis is a child of immorality. True, it may be caught by the innocent through heredity or by infection; but it is chiefly Putting the mortgage on the erad:e. 8 movement for teaching sex hygiene in the schools, in the own, they would be very glad to have Miss N. share their homes, and even in theaters, has arisen. Physician, home with them, just for the brightness and happiness teacher, parent, minister, actor, are all enlisted in an she would bring into their lives. Mrs. Olsen, believing effort to stamp out these diseases. Those who accom- them to be all they professed to be, told Miss N. to do as plish the most in this direction will be those who anni- she and her parents thought best. The young woman hilate the liquor traffic. finally decided to accept their generous offer, as not often But more directly the liquor traffic is responsible for a could board and room be paid for in smiles and good- nature. The new large share of home proved to insanity. Alco- be more than hol has an affin- agreeable, as the ity for brain SALOON people were un- tissue. And this usually kind. affinity works Testimonials One evening for the ultimate Miss N. had a destruction severe headache, of the tissue. THE SALOON HAS MADE A MENAGERIE so she • retired Statistics f r o m FOR ME. early; but did not s i x Massachu- go to sleep. setts insane hos- After an hour or pitals in 1936 two the gentle- ascribed 20 per man and hi s cent of the ad- missions directly wife went to bed. or, indirectly to There was a door alcohol. A t a between Miss Pennsylvania in- N.'s bedroom and sane hospital in the one they oc- 5907, in 46 per cupied, and some- cent of the male how that day it patients alcohol had been 1 e f t was one cause of slightly ajar, but THE SALOON DOES A not so much so their insanity. RUSHING BUSINESS Destroy t h e WITH ME that it was ob- liquor traffic and served. When you give to the $1 I all was quiet, country a health- Miss N. heard e r citizenship, her supposed and save an eco- friends talking nomic annual about her. loss through its "We have insane of many played this game millions of dol- about long lars. Stop t h e enough," she THE SALOON HAS FORCED flood at its ME TO WORK STEADILY heard the man THIS remark. "It's source. r•-‘• " This can be done; time wg were do- It should be done." i n g something. She's the be st fish we've caught Trap Revealed UNDERTAKE AN unusually yet." THE SALOON HAS She lay there pretty young PLACED ME IN A VERY PAINFUL, EMBARRASS- almost breath- woman of seven- ING,AND D .ICATE PO- SITION teen years wished less, and heard to go into a enough of their neighboring city conversation t o to perfect herself realize that she in dressmaking. was in the hands Her parents only of fiends, n o t reluctantly gave friends. W h en their consent she was very sure the white- a ft e r securing Copyright Myron A. Waterman. Used by permission from a motherly slavers, for so friend, a Mrs. Olsen, the promise that their daughter they proved to be, were fast asleep, she got up, and hastily could room and board with her while in the city, and wrapping her kimono about her, fled from the house. that she would carefully chaperon her. That a man and his wife could be so wickedly heart- Not many weeks, however, had passed after Miss N. less as to betray beautiful, pure girls in this base way is left her home before an elderly gentleman and his wife, hard to believe, but it is true. And what is worse, you calling upon Mrs. Olsen, made the young woman's ac- do the same thing when you vote for the perpetuation ' quaintance. They made themselves agreeable and in- of the liquor traffic, which every year basely entices tens teresting, and in passing Mrs. Olsen's home they im- of thousands of girls into immoral lives. Whoever fol- proved various opportunities to meet Miss N. They lows your example is not one whit better than those who finally told Mrs. Olsen that, having no children of their conspired against Miss N.'s virtue and happiness. 9 ut of tbe fliouth of a ISottle HELEN ADAIR OU wait till I'm a man. that is put into some of us YWhat can all the men bottles, for the sake of gain, be thinking about, anyhow? is a big sight worse for the Henry was curled up be- boys than helping to make fore the fire, in the big arm- us; and if you will keep your chair with the last number eyes open, you will find that of the Child Labor Bulletin most of the boys who have in his hand. He had been to leave school and work in reading the story of " Mr. factories to support the fam- Medicine Bottle," and, for ily, have to do it because the first time, had learned their fathers have spent all of the sad lives of the boys their r-cney for this villain- Jake, aged 17, a glass-fac- who, for the sake of gain, ous stuff in the bottles." Spinner in a cotton-mill. Works tory hand. are put to work in the glass Henry's eyes opened wide ten hours a day. factories before they are old enough and strong enough at this unexpected bit of information, and he asked, to endure the terrible strain. " What stuff do yoii mean, Mr. Alcohol Bottle?" He had learned how boys no older than himself work " I mean wine, beer, brandy, gin, hard cider, whisky, in the dark, dirty factories for eight and nine hours at a and all other drinks that contain alcohol." stretch, one week in the daytime . . . and the next week " Why, does beer contain alcohol? I heard a man say in the night-time." that beer is a food, and a good temperance drink." He had read how the mold boy sits cramped up, hour " Food, indeed ! " retorted the alcohol bottle; " ` as much after hour, at the feet of the flour as can lie on the point of man called the blower, shut- a table-knife' has more food in ting and steadying the iron mold, it ` than nine quarts of the best in which the burning-hot glass Bavarian beer.' As for being a is blown into the shape of bot-• temperance drink, beer has been ties. When a bottle is shaped, a found `next to brandy as an al- snapping-up boy takes it and runs coholic poison.' Many boast of with it to the glory hole for its the good it does them; but don't neck to be melted into good shape, you believe them, Master Henry, the fire at the glory hole being so for they are deceived. I heard bright that it almost blinds the a brewer's drayman telling how 'joy's eyes and blisters his face. he had drunk a gallon of beer There is also the cleaning-off every day for thirty years, and boy, who knocks off the bits of was never in better health than glass left hanging to the tube he was that moment; but the through which the man has blown. very next day he dropped dead This fills the air with powdered in a fit of apoplexy ! " glass for the boys to breathe and " Well ! I shall never drink to get into their eyes. beer if it's as bad as that." Another boy, called the carry- " Strange," continued the bot- ing-in boy, takes the hot bottles, tle, " how many are deceived by on a shovel, and runs with them it. Think of it: ` the kegs which to a hot oven, where they are the nations fill yearly with beer cooled down very slowly to keep would belt the world at the equa- them from flying to pieces. (The tor seven times.' Yet it is a boys, however, are not so tenderly known fact that the principal cared for. They are permitted to Good Housekeeping reason why nearly half of the run, suddenly. from the blistering The 2.000,000 children in bondage to toil is an out- young men of Germany have rage against our civilization, but the millions enslaved heat to the freezing cold, with by the licensed liquor traffic is the foulest blot upon heart-disease so badly that they our nation's honor. never a thought as to whether cannot bear arms is because they they will go to pieces or not.) Back and forth, back and erin1- beer. Americans are well along on the same road. forth, over the bits of broken glass, the boys run, run, Among the working classes in New York City, it has run, with cut s'.-oes and bleeding feet. with never a mo- been found that twenty per cent of the schoolchildren ment to rest until lunch-time; and then they run till take some sort of alcoholic drinks, ' from a glass of beer closing time. when they often are so tired that they drop a week to five glasses a day.' Now, you take my word down anywhere, in little heaps, and go to sleep in some for it, Master Henry, beer is no respecter of persons; corner of the .factory. Sometimes when they do not get what it does for a German, it will do for an American, if out till three o'clock in the morning, as frequently hap- he gives it a chance. People think because beer puffs pens, they stay there all night because they fear to go them out with a lot of waste matter and makes them home alone in the dark. look fat, it must be doing them good: but that is no sign, " That's all very true, Master Henry. I've seen it my- for ` morphin, phosphorus, and other deadly poisons do self," spoke out the alcohol bottle that stood on the shelf ; the same.' " " but I can tell you of something that's worse. The stuff "'Phosphorus ' ! why, ' Phosphorus Paste' is what

I0 mother fed the rats and mice. I remember now that's exactly what it did for them. Think of being as silly as a mouse, and taking something, just because it tastes good, that will make you puff up and die ! None for me, Mr. Alcohol Bottle, not if I know it." " People complain of hard times," growled the alcohol bottle; " no wonder they have hard times : ' the inhabit- Alcoholic beverages are univer- sally acknowledged to be the arch- ants of the United States spend about one billion eight destroyer. War, famine, pestilence, white plague, and accidents must all hundred million dollars' for strong drink every year. yield precedence to this chief enemy They lock their doors and bar their windows to keep the to human life and happiness. robbers out, and then carefully carry one in, in a bottle. ganized hosts, millions strong, attack and destroy the As soon as the cork is pulled, out it springs, like a jack hordes of disease germs of all kinds that are constantly in the pulpit,' and takes possession ; and they weakly sit entering the system through the air we breathe, through down and let it take the coal from the cellar, the potatoes our food and drink,' and through places where we have from the bin, the flour from the barrel, the piano from the broken the skin." parlor, the covers from their bed, the hats from their " Right ! By looking through the microscope it has heads, the coats from their backs, and the shoes from their been found that even a moderate drink of alcoholic bev- feet, even from the baby's feet ! If only that were all ! erage passing quickly into the blood paralyzes the white but it is not. They allow it to creep inside of them — blood-corpuscles. They behave like drunken men,' and into their stomachs, blood, nerves, muscles, heart, and cannot do their work of catching and devouring the dis- brain — and carry off their health, their strength, their ease germs. Every time a man takes a drink, therefore, ability to learn, their will-. he is endangering his life power, their innocence, from disease germs. and their life, both for "After a man has been time and for eternity. drinking for a long time, " Hard times,' huh ! the white blood-corpus- Let me whisper some- cles are so poisoned and thing in your ear, Master changed in nature that Henry : If the people of they turn into enemies in- this country keep on stead of friends, and actu- spending. their money for ally begin to feed upon strong drink, they are go- the tissues and organs, as ing to have still harder the disease germs do. times. Bad trees cannot Their favorite tissue food bring forth good fruits ; is the tender cells in the neither can weak, sickly, brain, and they have been drunken parents bring seen with the gray matter forth any but w e a k, of the brain down in their sickly, drunken children. bodies. This is the reason Of children born to al- for the great number of The fly, through its germ-spreading proclivities, is said by deaths among heavy coholic parents, one of government experts to cost the nation more than $150,000,000 a every five' is hopelessly year, besides the cost in loss of human life. But we've a greater drinkers, and for the way enemy. In the years 1900-08, 33,000 men, from twenty-five to insane, one out of three sixty-five years of age, were reported to have died in the United they degenerate, or grow States, in the " registration area " alone, from alcoholism and is hysterical or epileptic. from hardened liver due to alcoholism,— 11,000 more than died less and less like men and More than two thirds are from typhoid fever. more and more like wild degenerate. beasts. Since alcohol thus " You see, Master Henry, children cannot endure the hinders the growth of brain and nerve tissues, and our poison in alcohol much better than plants and insects brains should continue to grow until we are thirty years can. One part of alcohol to ninety-nine parts of water, of age, you can see how bad alcohol must he for children put around the roots of a geranium, will hinder its growth and young people. and make it turn pale and sick-looking; and insects im- " Men go to all manner of trouble and expense to pro- mersed in this water will die. tect themselves and their families from cholera, yellow " Have you ever heard of the red and white corpuscles fever, and smallpox; but all these plagues together do not in 'your blood? " do as much mischief in a year as alcohol does hi a month. " Yes; I learn about them at school. They are the " Those who know, tell us that .alcohol kills ten thou- wonderful standing army,' our teacher says, whose or- sand times more' than all the wars in the world, and that the number of Americans ' wounded by alcohol' today is more than ten times as many as have been wounded in all the battles of the world since the dawn of history.' " There are many ways in which alcohol kills. Sixty thousand little children under two years of age are put to death every year by King Alcohol." " Whew ! that's worse than •KingHerod did." " Some of the children starve to death, and some freeze, because drink has stolen all their fathers' money so they cannot provide food and fuel. Some die because alcohol has stolen the love and intelligence of their fathers and During the Spanish American War, out of a company of one mothers so that they neglect and abuse their children. hundred soldiers engaged in the war, insanitary conditions, flies, bad water, etc., resulted in fourteen illnesses and one death from Others die because of the awful diseases they take from typhoid fever, while bullets killed but one. But during the time these bullets and insanitary conditions were doing their deadly their parents, diseases caused by the poisonous drink. work, many whole regiments were put out of existence in our land by the liquor traffic; for every day during every year the " One of the most pitiful sights I ever saw was one traffic buries more than three such regiments. Shall we allow it day when I went along with a man to the morgue. I to continue this work indefinitely? II saw a large clothes-hamper ' filled with the bodies of little of his remarkable gift of oratory. In mature life he was dead babies.' I overheard the keeper tell one of the men elected to the United States Senate, and filled this high that all those babies had been gathered up ' in the drunken office with great credit to himself and with honor to his hovels of that one town that one day.' They had been State, until his lamentable decease at the age of fifty- smothered to death, while in bed, by their senseless, four years. Soon after the passing away of Senator drunken parents' lying on them. Poor little innocents ! Dolliver, the city which was honored by his citizenship voted to create a splendid public park and name it after their deceased but most distinguished citizen. A monu- ment is to be erected in the center of the park, upon which is to be mounted a life-sized statue of the late senator. Another talented man, who was also a boy in Fort Dodge during my school-days, has taken the place of Mr. Dolli- ver in the United States Senate. As far as I have been able to learn, not one of the fore- going list of honorable men ever yielded to the tempta- tion to partake of strong drink. It is significant, too, that none of those who yielded to appetite have parks consecrated to their memory or public monuments dedi- cated to their honor. Where they will spend eternity, we must leave with our Creator. G. W. REASER.

M gi Why They Hate the Blind Pig THE Wholesalers' and Retailers' Review, a liquor jour- nal, says : — We think the blind pig situation in San Francisco has passed all reasonable bounds. According to the best opinion, there are Disillusioned. She married a man to reform him. now about two thousand places in this city in which liquor is sold without a license. Such scandalous injustice to the legiti- lying there with their tiny clenched fists upraised just mate retail liquor merchants who pay an honest license to do where death had overtaken them, they looked as if they an honest business, should be stopped. were pleading for love and help and life. And this is "An honest license to do an honest business ! " Think only a sample of what is going on every Saturday night: of it ! That expression has not the remotest connection Two thousand five hundred babies are thus massacred with the liquor business. There is nothing honest, just, every year. 0, if I only were a man, I know I'd do some- or right about the traffic, and a thousand licenses can thing to rid this fair land of this foul blot ! " never make it so. " You wait till I'm a man, Mr. Alcohol Bottle, and you The liquor dealer's sole antipathy to the blind pig lies will see something done." in the fact that the blind pig dealer is allowed to dispense " Perhaps; but that's a long time to wait. Can't you do his wares at less cost than the licensed dealer. But the something now ? " M Companions of My School-Days Two of my classmates were sons of merchants and enjoyed many luxuries which were unknown to me, being the son of a blacksmith. They were youths of good intellect, with opportunities before them such as only a limited number of young men possess, and were congenial associates. But about the time of their graduation from high school, they acquired uncontrollable appetites for strong drink, and just at the point of early manhood both filled drunkards' graves. Another of my intimate companions was the son of a gospel minister. He seemed to me to be one of the best and most conscientious boys that I ever knew, but in some ill-guarded 'moment after he had passed from under the parental roof, he accepted a glass of liquor. It created an appetite that he could not control, and the once pure, conscientious boy passed all his mature life as a helpless drunkard. Some of my schoolmates became honored merchants. One is now perhaps the foremost banker of the State of Iowa, located in the capital. Another has served two long terms as director of the United States mints, with The alcoholic Circe; the enchantress that turns men into swine headquarters at the capital of the nation. He is still —The " Odyssey," Greek fable. serving the nation in the same capacity. Two became Who knows not Circe, . . . whose charmed cup Whoever tasted lost his upright shape, attorneys; one of them now occupies a high position in And downward fell into a groveling swine. his chosen profession. Another intimate acquaintance of — Milton. my early life has •filled the position of mayor of the city blind pig is bad primarily because of the character of its of Oakland, California, and no man has done so with wares, which are the same as those of the licensed saloon. greater credit than he. Both of these institutions are a scandalous injustice to Hon. Jonathan P. Dolliver first became prominent in the legitimate rights of our best citizenship, and should public life in the city of Fort. Dodge, Iowa, on account be exterminated.

• /2 ebe Yb Temperance /tauter [The following lecture was given at the beginning of the eye grew dim as the floods of sorrow washed away its temperance reformation, when even ministers feared to espouse brightness, and the living heart was wrung till every fiber the cause.] HE old man arose, his tall form towering in was broken. I once had a noble son, a bright and beau- its symmetry, and his chest swelling as he tiful boy, but he was driven out from the ruins of his inhaled the breath through his thin, dilated home, and my old heart yearns to know if he yet lives. nostrils. To me, at that time a mere child, I once had a babe, a sweet, tender blossom; but these there was something awe-inspiring and grand hands destroyed it. Do not be startled, friends: I am 'n the appearance of the old man as not a murderer in the common ac- he stood, his eyes full upon the audi- ceptance of the term. My brave boy, ence, his teeth shut hard, and a silence if he yet lives, would forgive the sor- like that of death throughout the thats all! rowing old man for the treatment *church. which sent him into the world, and the He bent his gaze upon the tavern- blow that lamed him for life. May keeper, and that peculiar eye lingered God forgive me for the ruin which I and kindled for half a moment. The brought upon me and mine ! " scar grew red upon his forehead, and He again wiped the tears from his beneath the heavy brows his eyes glit- eyes. My father watched with a tered and glowed like a serpent's: strange intensity, and a countenance the tavern-keeper quailed before that unusually pale and excited by some searching glance, and I felt a relief strong emotion. when the old man withdrew his gaze. " I was once a fanatic, and madly For a moment more he seemed lost followed the malign light which led in thought, and then, in a low and me to ruin. I was a fanatic when I tremulous tone, he began. sacrificed my wife, children, happiness, aaills*11Cswm-l-zxer--''2sas124"'gP-zsdaa There was a depth in that voice, a Collier's Weekly and home to the accursed demon of the thrilling sweetness and pathos, which " You helped to trap him, sir, bowl. I once adored the gentle being Voted to set the snare! riveted every heart in the church be- Why do you cast a slur whom I wronged so deeply. On your poor victim there? fore the first period had been rounded. With his blood on your hands, you dare " I was a drunkard. From respect- nownew to sneer at him, My father's attention had become fixed and forlorn? " ability and affluence T plunged into upon the eyes of the speaker with an interest I had never degradation and poverty. I dragged my family down before seen him exhibit. with me. For years I saw my wife's cheek pale, and her " My friends ! I am an old man standing alone at the step grow weary. I left her alone at the wreck of her end of life's journey. There is a deep sorrow in my home idols, and rioted at the tavern. She never com- heart, and tears in my eyes. plained, yet she and the chil- I have journeyed over a dren often went hungry for dark, beaconless ocean, and bread. all life's brightest hopes have " One New-year's night I been wrecked. I am without returned late to the hut friends or kindred on earth, where charity had given us and look with longing to rest a roof. She was still up, in the night of death. With- shivering over the coals. I out friends, relatives, or demanded food, but she home ! It was not always burst into tears and told me so." there was none. I fiercely No one could stand the ordered her to get some. touching pathos of the old She turned her sad eyes man. I noticed a tear trem- upon me, the tears falling bling on the lid of my fa- fast over her pale cheek. ther's eye, and I no longer " At this moment the child felt ashamed of my own in its cradle awoke and set tears. up a famished wail, startling " No, my friends, it was the despairing mother like a not once thus. Away over serpent's sting. the dark waves which have " ' We have no food, wrecked hopes, there is a James; have had none for blessed light of happiness two days. I have nothing and home. I reach again for the baby. My once kind convulsively for the shrines husband, must we starve?' of household idols that once " That sad, pleading face, were mine; now mine no and those streaming eyes, more. and the feeble wail of the "I once had a mother. child maddened me, and I — With her old heart crushed " No gift on earth pure water can excel; yes, I — struck her a fierce with sorrow, she went down Nature's the brewer, and she brews well." blow in the face, and she to the grave. I once had a wife, as fair an angel-hearted fell forward upon the floor. The furies of hell boiled in creature as ever smiled in an earthly home. Her eye was my bosom, and with deep intensity, as I felt that I had as mild as a summer's sky, her heart as faithful and true committed a wrong. I had never struck Mary before, as ever guarded and cherished a husband's love. Her but now some terrible impulse bore me on, and I stooped 13 down as well as I could in my drunken state and clenched years, but no tortures could equal those endured in my both hands in her hair. own bosom. 0 God, no ! I am not a fanatic; I wish to " God have mercy 1 ' exclaimed my wife, as she looked injure no one. But, while I live, let me strive to warn up into my fiendish countenance; ' you will not kill us, others not to enter the path which has been so dark and you will not harm Willie,' as she sprang to the cradle such a fearful one to me. I must see my angel wife and and grasped him in her embrace. I caught her again by children beyond this vale of tears." the hair, and dragged her to the door; and as I lifted the The old man sat down, but a spell as deep and strange latch, the wind burst in as that wrought by some with a cloud of snow. wizard's breath rested upon With the yell of a fiend I the audience. Hearts could still dragged her on, and have been heard in their hauled her out into the beating, while tears f ell darkness and the storm. thickly. The old man then With a loud ' Ha! ha! ' asked the people to sign I closed the door and the pledge. My father turned the button, her leaped from his seat and pleading moans mingling snatched at it eagerly. I with the wail of the blast had followed him. As he and the sharp cry of her hesitated a moment with his babe. But my work was pen in the ink, a tear fell not complete. I turned from the old man's eyes to the little bed where upon the paper. lay my older son, and " Sign it, young man, snatched him from his sign it. Angels would sign slumbers, and, against his it. I would write my name half-awakened struggles, ten thousand times in blood opened the door and if it would bring back my threw him out. In an loved ones." agony of fear he called My father wrote " Mor- me by a name I was no timer Hudson." longer fit to bear, and The old man looked, locked his little fingers in wiped his tearful eyes, and THE BOTTLE OR THE FLAG- my side pocket. I could looked again, his counte- Canadian Minister of War: "Sir, take your choice — but you can- not wrench that frenzied not serve both:" The officers and men of our United States nance alternately flashed the same alternative. grasp away, and, with the army and navy should be given with red and a deathlike coolness of the devil that possessed me, I shut the door paleness. It is — no, it cannot be, yet how strange," upon his arm, and with my knife severed the wrist." muttered the old man. " Pardon me, sir, but that is the The speaker ceased a moment and buried his face in name of my own lost boy." his hands, as if to shut out some fearful dream, and his My father trembled and held up his left arm, from deep chest heaved like a storm-swept sea. My father had which the hand had been severed. They looked for a risen from his seat and was leaning forward, his counte- moment in each other's eyes, both reeled and gasped, nance bloodless, and the large drops standing out upon " My own injured boy ! " " My father ! " his brow. Chills crept back to my heart, and I wished They each fell upon the other's neck till it seemed that I were at home. The old man looked up, and I their souls would grow and mingle into one. There was have never since beheld such mortal agony pictured on weeping in that church, and I turned bewildered upon the a human face as there was on his. streaming faces around me. " It was morning when I awoke. The storm had ceased, " My boy ! " exclaimed the old man, and kneeling down but the cold was intense. I first secured a drink of water, he poured out his heart in one of the most melting prayers and then looked in the accustomed place for Mary. As I ever heard. The spell was broken, and all eagerly I first missed her, a shadowy sense of some horrible night- signed the pledge, slowly going to their homes,- as if mare began to dawn upon my wandering mind. I thought loath to leave the spot. I had dreamed a fearful dream, but involuntarily opened The old man, my grandfather, is dead, but the lesson the door with a shuddering dread. he taught me on his knee, as the evening sun went down " As the door opened, the snow burst in, followed by without a cloud, will never be forgotten.— Selected. a fall of something across the threshold, scattering the cold snow and striking the floor with a hard, sharp sound. My blood shot like red-hot arrows through my veins, and Patent Medicine and Temperance I rubbed my eyes to shut out the sight. It was 0 God, THE Bureau of Chemistry at Washington, D. C., has how horrible ! — it was my own injured Mary and her found a list of patent medicines which are insufficiently babe, frozen to ice. The ever-true mother had bowed medicated to be classed as medicines, but are well blended herself over the child to shield it, and had wrapped all with alcohol, and are therefore classed as " Compound her own clothing around it, leaving her own person stark Liquors." While they are sold as medicines, their chief and bare to the storm. She had placed her hair over the element is the alcohol they contain, and for this reason face of the child, and the sleet had frozen it to the white the manufacturers .and deqlers must pay internal revenue cheek. The frost was white it half-open eyes and on these " booze medicines," even if they are sold by upon its tiny fingers. I know not what became of my druggists as medicine; for the law demands revenue from brave boy." all medicines containing more alcohol than is necessary to Again the old man bowed his head and wept, and all preserve the small amount of medicine that they contain. who were in the house wept with him. In tones of low, The 'Internal Revenue Commissioners' list (T. D. 1794) heart-broken pathos the old man concluded:— cites two hundred and fifty-eight preparations of patent " I was arrested, and for long months --I raved in de- medicines on which the commissioners collect a special lirium. I awoke, and was sentenced to prison for ten revenue tax. Why should not a special tax be collected 14 on these, as many of the medicines contain as much al- "Some boys learn to smoke cigarettes. To them it cohol as does whisky? The saloon is not the only place seems manly. After a while those boys find they can't where Satan deals out his drink. stop smoking. It hurts them, but they must go on. In- These patent medicine " bracers " do as much harm in stead of being men, they are slaves. They can't let go." nizny homes as beer would do ; for in a quiet way they The two bOYs that calmly awaited death, as a rowboat create an appetite which later ends in a drunkards grave. in which they had been playing drifted down the Niagara Malt beer contains as low as River, plunged over the falls, four per cent of alcohol, SO CUTE AND EASILY NE WatcOMPLETE GUT ALAS. WHEN FULLY and hurled them into the i . HARMLESS C 0 NTROI.LE I) MASTER OF IT. YOU GROWN. IT SNOWED while patent medicine may I KNOW. , ITS TRUE NATURE whirlpool rapids below the A SO EnDS THE &O*( _ - falls, were fortunate beside contain as high...as sixty, or . e.F . .. from five to fifteen times as V 4 '.4 many boys who in an un- much alcohol as is found in ..frkii • 14'' guarded moment suffer them- ,.. .. beer. And alcohol in patent ) , , selves to be beguiled into medicine has the same effect 4-12 smoking the deadly cigarette. on the system as that, which . The only sure way to avoid I AT YEA R RA2 YEAR —J 3n2YEAR is found in beer; so one can the fatal end is not to enter Habit — Theagar et llito and howit grew. easily create a spirituous liq- p the boat, not to smoke the uor appetite in one's child by giving it patent medicines. first cigarette. Fortunate the boy who heeds this counsel. Mothers, it may be only a little, but that little may do untold harm. The United States consumes over two and one-half Heathen Superstitions billion gallons of alcoholic beverages. The 25,000,000 AMONG the native tribes of Africa where Christianity confirmed, heavy, and regular drinkers do not consume all has not yet penetrated, demon-worship in its .varied hea- this liquor. The manufacturers and revenue collectors thenish forms still prevails. The demon feast is a com- will testify that a surprising per cent of the two and mon accompaniment of demon-worship. As a prepa- one-half billion gallons of liquor is used in the patent ration for one of these feasts, a man offered a goat for medicine products. sacrifice, another a dog, and a woman offered her eleven- Besides the two hundred and fifty-eight booze patent year-old boy. This they did believing this course neces- medicines, there are hundreds of other kinds that are sary to appease the demons and to prevent afflictions that classed as standards, many of which have almost as would otherwise come to them. much alcohol in them as whisky has. They are strongly On the appointed day each came with his offering, and medicated, and the amount of alcohol they contain is a large company of men and women gathered for the printed on the label of the feast. The three offerings bottle, making them exempt 4 , -. were sacrificed, and all to- r,II 11 , -. from taxation. But they 1 111 ---,_ 116 / gether placed over the fire contain the alcohol, and the 0 and cooked. When the prep- people consume them, . - - - , 1/ /,' i arations for the feast were thinking that the stimulat- , ;%;, 7:. - completed, all gathered -,APY ing effect comes from the THE S I 'I I) around the pot and ate' the medicine, when it really -A ...... ,.— ..._ ... three sacrifices. comes from the alcohol. Among that same people Whenever I see Will the good temper- On bush or tree exists the superstition that if ance people of America A great big spiderimeb, a baby's upper teeth appear continue to be deceived by I say with a shout, before its lower, the child is drinking these "weed " Little fly, look out! a witch, and if allowed to soups," preserved in alco- That web seems so'pretty and white, live, will bring great evil hol? They give a feeling But a spider hides there, and is ready to bite." upon the people; so it is of contentment, but it is taken out into the woods and not from the beef, iron, or So if any one here left to starve. If twins are Drinks cider or beer, bitters they contain. , Rob born, one must of necessity I say to him now, the patent medicines of With my very best bow, be a witch; so the ,mother their alcohol and habit- " Have a care of that lager or cider, takes it out into the woods, forming drugs and there For there hides a wicked old spider, prepares a fire in a pot, would be little left. And it fills him with joy wraps her child up, and lays M. MARTINSON, M. D. To catch man or boy it on the fire to burn to death. And weave all about him with terrible might We deplore such ignorance M The meshes of habit—the rum appetite." Selecttd and heartlessness, but far Hold of Bad Habits ' — — - .e i *-1, fewer persons suffer at the " WHEN I was a boy," hands of these misguided I NV '`1, , e.“ says a writer, " I saw a g .— ones than are sacrificed each man take hold of a wire 1' Fill f-,-', 11 1 — i year in this country to the , loa ..i. — --.. • - and then fall down on the 1,, greed of the liquor traffic by 1L'e ground. He could not let the covetousness and small- go. It was a live wire, full of electricity. He knew ness of the misinformed taxpayer. He is told by the traf- it, because we had told him, but he thought he could be fic that if he votes to close the saloons, it will increase his careful and use his coat to keep it from touching his taxes and hurt business generally ; so, though misin- hands. But in a moment the current caught him and formed, he submissively casts his vote for the saloon, held him in its grip. He was fortunate to escape alive. and as a result not only one boy, but many boys and " Since then I have seen others who were caught and men are debauched, homes ruined, wives widowed, and could not let go. A man came to me one day and asked children orphaned. This is a superstition far more heart- me to help him stop drinking. He began as a boy, drink- less than that of the African demon-worshiper, and not ing hard cider. Now he could not let go. one whit more effective in accomplishing its intended end. IS eigarette5 anb ilianboob MATILDA ERICKSON WHEN Columbus started out to find a shorter the business prospects of more boys than any other one thing. 1110 course to India, he never once turned aside No boy is safe that uses cigarettes. ' ‘It -. from his chosen pursuit. The seas were un- The boy who would reach the goal of ideal manhood known, the boats were small, his men muti- must learn to be reliable, truthful, honest, and indus- nied, but every day Columbus wrote these words in his trious. Elbert Hubbard warns men against cigarette diary : " This day we sailed westward as our course was." smokers in these words: — And finally, at the end of his journey, he found the grand Place no confidence in the cigarettist. He is an irresponsible New World, which has ever since been known as the being, a defective. Love him if you can, pity him if you will, but give him no chance to clutch you with his nicotin fingers and Land of Opportunity. drag you beneath the wave. Now every boy embarks for the haven of true man- hood; and every boy will reach it if day Many leading industries shun the cigarettist. They after day he keeps the ship of life know they cannot trust him, for the cigarette will destroy headed straight for the chosen port; for the best of boys, and make all their good intentions go when any one sets himself to live a up in smoke. A director of the Union Pacific Railroad noble life, man cannot interrupt him, says, "The company might just as well go to the lunatic and God will not. But some boys are asylum for workers as to retain cigarette smokers in its like grasshoppers. A grasshopper ap- employ." Supt. E. J. Easley, of the Rock Island Rail- parently hops about without any thought road, once issued the following notice : " Hereafter any of consequences. It may land before a employee found smoking cigarettes will be passing, wheel, or hop into a burning dismissed from service." These are only heap ; and its brief life is gone ! Just two of the many doors of the business so with the boys who jump into ques- world that are closed to cigarette smokers. tionable habits. Take, for instance, the Rubber Backbones boys who jump into the cigarette habit. Would you reach the goal of ideal man- They never stop to think that they may hood? Then you must cultivate the power land in the insane asylum, a prison pen, of decision, and have courage to stand or the grave, as have thousands of oth- straight in this crooked world. The ciga- ers before them. George says, " The rette fiend is known by his rubber back- cigarettes I smoke will not keep me from bone, bending to every temptation that being an ideal man." He thinks he is draws. " One of the most deadly influ- telling the truth, but the world knows ences of cigarette smoking," says Orison he is not. Poor foolish lad ! Often The cigarette vice prevents Swett Marden, ".is the gradual killing of brain development. the cigarette smoker is alert, witty, the power of decision. The victim begins and competent. But let me tell you, he is at his best. to vacillate, to waver, to ask everybody's advice. He Sooner or later he will learn that he must either cast the cannot make up his mind about anything. He loses the cigarette aside or give up his hopes of ever reaching the power to say no," for the cigarette has stolen his courage. goal of true, noble manhood. The boy who desires to be- Dr. A. C. Clinton, of San Francisco, testifies that he has come a worthy young man would do well to listen care- seen bright boys turned into dunces, and straightforward. fully to the warning of Marion Lawrence: — honest boys made miserable cowards by cigarette smoking. The cigarette habit as we now have it in America, is without No boy can reach the goal of ideal manhood without question undermining the health and character and blighting a strong, well-trained mind ; but let me tell you how the i6 cigarette helped a certain high-school boy in Iowa. One thirty-five boy prisoners. Thirty-three of them were con- term he was reported as not getting his lessons; before firmed cigarette smokers." Another magistrate brings this he had always done excellent work. The boy in- the following testimony: "Ninety-nine out of one hun- sisted that he had studied dred boys between the ages farth fully. There was then of ten and seventeen, who but one explanation, and that come before me charged came in the boy's confession with crime have their fingers that several months before disfigured by the yellow ciga- he dropped to the foot of his rette stains." A superintend- class he had formed the habit ent of the State Reformatory of smoking cigarettes. For of Illinois says, " I am sure fifty years, while Dr. Lewis cigarettes a r e destroying was connected with Harvard, and making criminals of five out of every six students more boys than are the sa- smoked; but no smoker was loons." There is something ever graduated at the head in the poison of the cigarette of his class. And not only that seems to get into the does the cigarette cripple the system of the boy and in mind for good mental work, time destroys all moral fiber. but it drives thousands of Some boys, like Paul boys insane. Some time ago Woodward, realize these Motor-cycles are used in facts too late. When he lay there died in a Christian the rural campaign against the white plague by the a condemned murderer in home a once-promising young Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis Society. All paraphernalia needed man. Through cigarette for a stereopticon lecture and for camping out is carried on ma- the Camden, New Jersey, chine. A thousand motor-cyclists waging a similar warfare smoking he had become a against the cigarette habit during the coming year would do un- jail, he made this confes- raving maniac. Not one told good. Who will volunteer for the work? sion: — word of repentance passed his dying lips, not one message Cigarettes have been my ruin. Since a small boy I have smoked those things, and they have driven me crazy. I do things of comfort did he leave for his heart-broken loved ones. against my will. Sometimes I feel a demon within me that im- He went out of the world crying, " 0 mother, give me pels me to do injury to my dearest friends. I am going to stop smoking cigarettes from now on. I want to be a different another cigarette !" man before I die. Purity and Diligence Boys, the world is dying for want of men. It is plead- These must also be found in the character of the boy ing for them. It does not want cigarette fiends; they are who would reach the goal of true success; but says a one of its greatest sorrows and its shame. Boys, you are close observer,— the men of tomorrow, the men who must bear the respon- The symptoms of a cigarette victim resemble those of an sibilities of the world. The cigarette is not worthy of opium eater. A gradual deaden- ing, benumbing influence creeps you; you cannot afford to all through the mental and moral stoop to its use. Do not let faculties. The standards all drop it rob you of your bodily 'to a lower level; the whole average of life is cut down ; strength, your mental power, the victim loses the power of or your moral sense. You mental grasp, the grip of mind need all of these to reach which he once had. In place of his former energy and vim and the goal of pure, noble man- push, he is more and more in- hood. Any loaf e r can clined to take things easy and to slide along the line of least smoke, but it takes a manly resistance. boy to say no. Will you not But no boy ever reached prove that you are manly the goal of true manhood in enough to refuse? Will you that way. To follow the line not say, with hundreds of of least resistance always other brave young men, " I means a downward course, promise with the help of God which ends in sorrow and never to use tobacco in any bitter regret, if not in posi- form, and to help others to tive shame, crime, and death. abstain from its use "? Just what the cigarette. habit does for honesty, de- Most Beautiful Thing cision, purity, and diligence, AN old sea-captain was it will do for all the other heard to say that the most excellent qualities of true beautiful sights of the world manhood. Like Satan, its are a mother with her child, maker, the cigarette is never and a square-rigged ship un- content until it drags its vic- der full sail. A stately ship tims to the lowest depths. gliding over the waters is First, it steals a boy's vir- beautiful; but fairer far is tues, and then it loads him The Cosmopolitan the purest type of mother- down with vices. It entices Hands that alternately play the devil's tattoo and roll cigarettes hood with her babe. The a boy to do wrong in little — these are the hands that forge your name and close over other people's money.— Elbert Hubbard. blackest black thing in all things, then it strives to pull the world is that which will him down, down, down, till he finds himself in the iron wantonly destroy this noblest picture heaven has given clutches of the law. There is a close relationship obtain- to earth; and that black thing is the liquor traffic. Better ing between the cigarette and crime. Some time ago a would it be that every hand should be palsied ere it wrote New York magistrate said : " Yesterday I had before me the ballot that makes possible the licensing of the traffic ! Tbe jgopil anb Turtle U. C. GODSMARK, M. D. T WAS once engaged in hold- could hardly expect the nico- ' ing a series of gospel meet- tin to kill it more quickly ings at Pleasant Lake, Indiana. than an ax would. I was known as the " boy The boys saw the point preacher," and was assisting the and promised to be honest late evangelist J. M. Rees in a with me in the experiment. tent effort. They said they would keep Having been a medical student, the turtle as long as I said, On the way to the and report his condition. Enlisting the ;wencher's minister. it naturally fell to my part to de- services. liver the regular weekly lecture With this promise, I placed on the subject of temperance. We were having large upon the tongue of the animal one drop of the poison crowds in attendance at our meetings, and I had spoken that is to be found in every leaf of the tobacco-plant, freely on the poisonous effects of tobacco, showing how and in just twenty-six minutes, that turtle was dead. paralyzing it is to the vasomotor system, and illustrating the same by relating how we had, upon several occasions, Thirteen Billion Cigarettes! killed cats by placing a tiny drop of nicotin from tobacco THE president of the recently organized $5o,000,000 upon their tongues, it requiring but twenty ' tobacco concern is reported as saying, while to thirty seconds to produce the cat's death; on the Pacific Coast, that California is not while a dog would succumb to the same treat- using its proportion of cigarettes as compared ment within fifty to sixty seconds. with the remainder of the United States. This We labored hard to impress upon the boys, gentleman was frank enough, in giving the especially, the evil effects of the use, in any purpose of his Western trip, to say: — way, of tobacco, how it literally destroys the I am here to look over the field and see what fine fibrils of the nerve-cells in the gray mat- ought to be done to increase the sale of cigarettes, ter of their brains, so that no man who uses and then all other forms of tobacco. For the pres- ent our company will concentrate on cigarettes. In tobacco has as perfect control of himself and 1912 the American people smoked thirteen billion, can think as quickly or reason as clearly as three hundred million cigarettes, which does not Watching for results. include the untold billions rolled by hand and im- he could were his system not poisoned by the ported. Put the number in figures and look at it, der.C:y nicotin. The following day while, sitting by 'our — 13,300,000,000,— an increase of three and one-half billions over tent poor reading, I noticed a group of bare-footed boys what were smoked in 1911. That increase alone would make any combination of manufacturers happy if it could get the coming down the street dragging an immense turtle of increase. • the snapping variety. I thought little of the incident Shame on any company, we say, that is made happy by until the caravan headed for my door, and halted in an the destruction of the physical, mental, and moral health excited manner just in front of where I was sitting. I of our boys, even though it bring an increase of a hundred arose and asked the boys where they had found such an per cent to its business! immense fellow and what they proposed to do with him. One of the youngsters removed his hat •and said re- Cigarette Smoking spectfully, " Please, sir, we were out to hear your lecture THE president of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company last night, and we heard you tell how you recently said to his department heads: — had killed cats and dogs with that poison It has been noted that a number of our young that you say is in all tobacco ; and when we men are apparently regular smokers of cigarettes. boys found this turtle down in the woods, Even though ' the habit may not be indulged in we said we would drag it up here and ask in our office, it is just as objectionable and as much a matter of concern to the company if you to try some of your poison on it." carried on out of office hours. It is well known I was dumfounded. I did not know what that persistent smoking of cigarettes will finally to do or what to say. Mr. Rees, who had result in either mental or physical breakdown, and sometimes both. We, therefore, cannot re- core to the tent door, took in the situation, gard one with this habit as qualified for ad- and promptly went to the rear of the tent vancement. and the interest of the company d-- mands that it should have in its employ only and stretched himself upon a' cot and en- such as are, or will be, capable of doing better joyed a hearty laugh. work than they are doing today. You will, there- I knew that something had to be done, for fore, please advise your clerks that cigarette smoking will not be tolerated, and that those there the boys were with an animal that has who are unwilling to cease the habit shall seek as little idea of dying as any creature in employment elsewhere. existence. A cat will readily yield up its A N nine lives in very short order under proper circumstances, but a turtle of this sort can THE superintendent of St. Mary's Indus- be literally cut up into inch pieces, and trial School, Baltimore, Maryland, says: still its heart will beat right on for hours A very large percentage of those in our just as if nothing had happened. institution used cigarettes before coming here. My candid opinion, based upon observation The only thing I could do was to "Pet, I am so glad you are a and special study of the effect of tobacco dog; 'cause if you were a boy you upon boys, is that it is very harmful. I meet the issue in an honorable way : so might sometimes smoke that hor- rid tobacco." regard the absolute prohibition of cigarettes I told the boys plainly that I was per- to boys under sixteen years of age, and of fectly willing to put the nicotin on the turtle's tongue, liquor to those under twenty-one, to be the wisest solution of but that it would be necessary for them to take it home these problems. with them and shut it up in a box or shed so it could not get away, and to keep watch of it for at least two REMEMBER, boys, that scores of business firms refuse weeks, for it would live a full week, or even ten days, to employ the cigarette user. They must have good in a cool place, with its head cut entirely off, and we reason for doing so. 18 J. J. Callahan John McInnes Connie Mack Frank Baker Charles S. Dooin Zflalba jBazebatt Olen Tbinti of eigaretta; J. CALLAHAN, manager of the Chicago Club of will-power enough to overcome such a habit. There are J. the American League, in answering a recent re- quest made by Edward Quinn, of Washington, D. C., many other ways that one can enjoy oneself without the for his opinion on the effect of tobacco on ball ruination of health, and this cannot be done if cigarette players, for this number of this paper, wrote as smoking is continued. follows : — Governor Tener, of Pennsylvania, now president of the National In my opinion excessive smoking is injurious, League, said of Mr. Mack and his world-champion club: — not only to ball players, but to any one. I His success is largely due to the fact that he can put in do not, however, prohibit any of our players the field a team of nine men who have not tasted liquor. —A1111' from smoking, except of cigarettes. When to- Of that wonderful infield of his, none ever tasted liquor, and bacco is inhaled, it has a tendency to make an but one ever uses tobacco. Connie Mack's success is sub- athlete short-winded. stantial; every move he makes is with a definite purpose. Mr. Chas. S. Dooin, manager of the Philadelphia Club of the National League, also wrote to Mr. Quinn, saying : — Manager Clark Griffith, of the Washington Baseball Club of Cigarettes I regard as injurious, and they are absolutely the American League, says: — tabooed on our team. I consider cigarette smoking by either boys or young men the worst, form of dissipation. There is nothing so Mr. Connie Mack, manager Philadelphia Baseball Club of the American League, which holds the world's championship of 1910, ruinous to a man or boy's physical self as smoking cigarettes.

Clark Griffith {{'alter Johnson Branch Rickey Ty ( lingit Jennings

'I I, '13. and the American League pennants of 1902. '05, says A confirmed drunkard can live longer and feel better than of the tobacco habit: — an inveterate cigarette smoker. There is very little cigarette smoking among our baseball Mr. Griffith reenforced this testimony on the harmfulness of boys. We do everything in our power to discourage the use the tobacco habit in a very practical way at the beginning of of cigarettes, knowing the great harm that they have done the 1913 baseball season, promising two members of his team to those who have been in the habit of using them. We find that he would give each of them $100 at the close of the season if they would abstain from using tobacco the remainder of the that those players who smoke never amount to a great deal season. Both young men threw-,away their smoking utensils in the profession, and I would say that this goes for all pro- Branch Rickey, the new manager of the St. Louis Browns of fessions. It is my candid opinion, and I have watched very the American League, is a total abstainer. Mr. Rickey says: — closely the last twelve years or more, that boys at the age of ten to fifteen who have continued smoking cigarettes do I have never used profane language; neither do I smoke, not as a rule amount to anything. They are unfitted in every chew, or drink. way for any kind of work where brains are needed. Play- Mr. Hugh Jennings, manager of the Detroit American League ers, for instance, who should otherwise have continued in the Baseball Club, said in a letter to Prof. F. H Broome, of Knox- ville, Tennessee: — game until they were at the age of thirty or thirty-five, have had to be let out years before their time, as the poison of The cigarette habit is one of the worst habits a man or cigarettes getting into their system has unnerved and weak- boy can fall into. It has a very dangerous effect upon the ened them so that they were utterly unfit for the duty they constitution, and will eventually bring a man into declining had to perform. health. I have been trying to stamp out the cigarette habit No boy or man can expect to succeed in this world to with the Detroit players, but have not been so successful as a high position and continue the use of cigarettes. I could hope for. I am pleased to say that many of my After all, it is only a habit, and every one should have players do not smoke the filthy things. Among this number

19 is Ty Cobb, the greatest player in the country, Sam Craw- persist in the use of tobacco. There is no question about ford, Jean Dubuc, Louden, Veach, and several of the the injury to the constitution from the use of tobacco, for it youngsters. smokes, and I can see the effect it has is bound to have its effect, not only on the wind, but also on his work. It has fallen off twenty-five per cent in the on the stomach, which in the end will bring on nervousness. past two years, My advice to and unless he athletes, both realizes this young and fact his time in , old, would be the Majors Boys, be wise, we say, and listen to what our leading baseball men say of the smoking habit. to shun the will soon come use of tobacco to an end. I would advise all boys •to follow the example in every form, and also the use of intoxicating liquors. No of Cobb, Crawford, and the rest of the men whose names I man can be successful who is addicted to either of these have mentioned, and also keep before their minds the men vices, and the sooner young Americans realize this fact, who won so many pennants for the famous old city of Balti- the sooner they will come into their own. more, the Baltimore Orioles. Not one man on that famous The star batter of the Philadelphia Athletics, " Home Run old team ever contracted the cigarette habit. The positions Baker," says : — of prominence and authority many of them hold at present are sufficient argument against the use of cigarettes. I never did drink nor smoke. If any youngster wants advice from one who doesn't mean to preach, here it is: Mr. Jennings just recently reenforced this testimony in a Leave cigarettes and tobacco alone, and don't touch letter to Mr. Edward Quinn, by saying : — " booze " now or at any time. Mine is the total-absti- I know quite a few ball players who are constant users nence platform for both liquor and tobacco. of tobacco in the form of chewing or smoking, and I also know a number who do not use tobacco in any form. The Walter Johnson, the world's greatest pitcher, whom our na- latter consider far better suited to stand the tremendous tional capital fans signally honored last summer, does not drink, smoke, nor chew, and goes to bed early. strain imposed upon a ball player during a strenuous cam- John McInnes, the star first baseman of the Athletics, world's paign of six months' playing, and I know they are better champion club, is a credit to his profession in every particular, off physically at the close of the season than players who says the Baseball Magazine. He never uses tobacco or liquor.

EE Zbe go in of the jrather5 'Upon Zbeir ebitbren [The following is an excerpt from a pamphlet written by yes, if you have ears to hear! But never of him who Robert N. Wilson, M. D., Fellow of the College of Physicians forces himself and his objectionable of Philadelphia, Physician to the Philadelphia General Hospital, 'presence on those and Pathologist to the Presbyterian Hospital.] who have more claim than he upon clean air, because HERE can be little or no doubt that few or they enjoy it when permitted to by his absence, whereas none of the nicotin-soaked specimens that he does not know clean air from foul, and is forever help- are dignified by the name father, can fail ing to render foul the air that is clean. Yes, he smells to leave a tobacco impress upon their chil- bad, inevitably and eternally bad, does the tobacco habitue, dren. Whether this is in the form of simple and the world ought to make him thoroughly acquainted ill health, or lack of vitality, or nervousness so called, with the fact. How any self-respect- or susceptibility to disease, or whether it shapes itself ing girl or woman of refined taste as imbecility or insan- and normal sense of ity or epilepsy, or ad- smell can tolerate the diction to drug habits, presence of such men or irresponsibility and as I meet in the daily lowered powers of walks of life, married moral resistance,— in men, single men, hus- either or all of these bands, lovers, doctors, events the birds will ministers, lawyers, old in the fulness of time and young, wise men come home to roost, and fools,— how they a n d credit be paid can touch the lips of where credit is due. — such men, or live with Surely " God is not them, or sleep with mocked; for whatso- them, is beyond under- ever a man soweth, standing. No un- that shall he a 1 s o trained cat or dog will reap." What is more, cultivate their immedi- he shall reap in the ate neighborhood. If form of those who you doubt the literal A public nuisan ce, though looks would indicate better come after. Posterity things of him. We have pure food laws, truth of this, try the not only may point why not pure air laws? experiment. The child the finger of reproach at ill-advised, self-centered parents, withdraws its face from father or brother until it, too, is but our young are being taught just this right to hold saturated by custom or absorption. Moreover, if the girls their forbears responsible. The question that is to interest and women smelled as bad, or were even a little redolent the new man and woman is to be, not, " Why was I born with the same narcotic perfume, they would pass lonely thus ? " but, " Who dared to deprive me of health and evenings in communion with moon and maid, but with the right to live?" never a trousered or bewhiskered admirer, nor one suf- Have you ever heard the smoker or the chewer com- ficiently thoughtless of self to condone the offense to his plain of the " street-car hog," of the " hatpin hog "? 0, nose. If the tobacco user could only smell with a keen

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sense of appreciation that which others smell and think of can use tobacco when he remembers that this is his coun- him, he would on that instant forswear his own company try, and he one of her loyal sons? and the drug that makes him oblivious to the right of An old darky hearing a would-be reformer say, " I other human beings to breathe pure air. must stop," exclaimed : " Don' say dat, boss 1 Dat's no Habit, the master, is in command of the tobacco user, good ! Say, I am quit ! I'se done stopped ! Do it now, and seldom lets go. Can you hear his minion cry, " I boss, and den yo won't forget it." can stop when I please "? Does he stop ?— Yes, when There is a world of work ahead, and men and women waning eyesight, or incompetent heart action, or failing and children need every strength of heart, mind, and body power to breathe, demands obedience through the mega- fof the issue. Not one can afford to trifle with the talents phone of physical fear. Not because of love for his placed in his keeping. neighbor as great as for himself ! Not because •each E A M unit of society owes a• due regard for the preroga- A True Story tives and comforts of every other one ! Not, we regret to say, because he realizes that he is a public nuisance ! " I wisu God would let me live just long enough to He has no reason to be offended because of our recogni- save one hundred boys afflicted with the cigarette habit." tion of the fact that With these w o r d s, he has relegated him- Herbert Secrest, a self to that class. Detroit schoolboy, Habit has not only passed away. enchained h i m so For nine years he that he is a slave, but had been a victim of has blinded him so the habit which that he cannot per- caused his death. ceive his sorry state. The boy in his early Tobacco is a spend- school-days showed thrift, a tempter into every sign of a bril- evil associations, into liant mind, and easily gambling, alcoholism, excelled all his com- immorality, with a panions in class, un- power and persist- til he began smoking. ence exerted by no On his death-bed he other influence, save confessed to having the devil. Can a man smoked as many as of principle and con- thirty-five cigarettes science smoke before a day. • other men and before His parents were youths and boys, not aware that Her- knowing that they bert was smoking un- will as a consequence til the habit had a also indulge? Can firm grip upon him. he do this thing They noticed only a knowing all the gradual failing in his truth? There is no school work, and that doubt of it when once he gained nothing in under the influence height or weight, but, of the drug. Even on the contrary, con- ministers of the gos- tinually lost weight. pel, even physicians, They sent him to a whose chosen and farm in Canada, consecrated work is where he could not to upbuild the inner get cigarettes, and in and outer man, so " jealous, I own, of the poisonous wine; For the lips that touch liquor shall never touch mine. a short time he forget the ground And I care not how tender his love-song may be; gained several If he's wed to tobacco he shall never wed me." principle of their inches; but he came professional obligation as themselves to indulge, and by back to the city and to the toils of the old habit. From so doing to spur others on to their moral and physical this time on, his condition gradually became worse, until harm. his decline became critical illness. When Herbert saw The tobacco trade is the only traffic apart from that of he was dying, he called his younger brother, Frank, alcohol, the stage, and open immorality, that uses in- to his side and begged him to stop smoking. " I should decency and vulgarity in picture and advertisement to in- like to save more boys, but I must die," he wailed crease its gain. With alcohol, tobacco is the keenest of piteously. all drug stimulants of sex passion. No other one in- A post-mortem examination showed that one side of fluence compares with its power to beckon and beguile his heart was practically gone, and the organ twice the the clean young boy and girl into the brothel, and, at the normal size, with the muscles badly degenerated. Over same time, to remove the power to resist the call. It the casket of this young victim, many schoolmates took is one of the few remaining lines of business tolerated a vow to abstain from tobacco. by man for his own undoing. Three influences have Herbert's father is a well-known citizen and church raised the death-rate in France above her birth-rate,— officer, and while he deplored the publicity of the affair, alcohol, tobacco, and the diseases attendant upon im- he was willing the facts should be made known in the morality. These same three influences have accomplished hope of saving other boys. ERNEST LLOYD. the identical result in one section of America. Knowing El Ui these things, is it not strange that the true American " EVERY drunkard was once a moderate drinker."

21 1opat Total Zth5tainer MPEROR WILLIAM of Ger- eminent physician said that out of thirty-seven cases of E many some time ago demanded paralysis of the nerves of the eye that he examined, the latest statistics as to suicides, ac- twenty-three had been blinded by using tobacco. Tobacco cidents, crimes, and the inefficiencies does not so affect every tobacco user's eyes, but one can of labor resulting from immoderate never tell whom it will thus afflict. drinking. After a careful study of Tobacco-heart is a common result of tobacco poisoning. these statistics, he experimented upon No insurance company will insure a person who has himself, and found that even small tobacco-heart. quantities of liquor lessened his en- A boy who uses tobacco will, long before he is grown, ergy and capacity for work. He be- become short of breath, and stand about as much chance came thoroughly convinced that al- of winning a race as does a mouth breather. cohol is responsible for a large share • M of the suffering and sorrow in the world, that it materially lessens the working capacity of man, and that it is one of A Generation of Non-Tobacco Using Men the greatest factors in retarding the development of both WILLIAM MCKEEVER, Profes- nations and individuals. Having once convinced himself sor of Child Welfare, Univer- of the truthfulness of these things, with characteristic sity of Kansas, in a paper read determination and courage, he at once became a total at the Congress of School Hy- abstainer, and began working for a reformation among giene held at Buffalo last Au- his people. Recently the emperor gave a lecture on tem- gust, said: — perance, and drank a toast in and to water. " Now we have perfected a Now if Kaiser William, the war lord of Europe, will at plan in Kansas whereby we once give up the use of alcohol when through careful hope to bring up another gen- study of the question he has become convinced of its eration of men, who are to be harmful effects, ought not every boy to be courageous total abstainers from the use of tobacco. We have per- and manly enough to denounce and renounce forever the haps the most efficient anti-juvenile-tobacco-using law in deadly cigarette, the evil of which is testified to by nations, existence. Under penalty of a heavy fine, boys under states, towns, schools, legislators, judges, physicians, sci- twenty-one years are forbidden to use tobacco in any entists, and individuals? public place, on any public highway, or on the property We pity one who in an unguarded or demented moment of any public corporation. Moreover, the person or cor- commits suicide. Such an act always indicates weakness. poration on whose premises the youth is permitted to The holding on to any habit known to be body destroying violate the anti-tobacco law is subject to a fine of twenty- is equally indicative of weakness. The strong are masters five dollars. of themselves, not in bondage to any habit. Life to them " But legislation is of little value except it is backed is dear. So the wise boy, the strong boy, the manly boy, up by public sentiment ; and that backing we have in will make sure to keep himself free from whatever would Kansas. Even public sentiment will avail little except hinder his best development. Men and women of char- it is stimulated and guided by those especially appointed acter look with pity and disgust upon the cigarette smoker. to look after the enforcement of the law; and that again Boys, do you want pity, or admiration? If pity, then we have. We circularize the country's attorneys, police throw your life away by a useless and harmful habit. If officers, marshals, and constables in regard to this law, admiration, have strength to eschew evil. and give them the benefit of special methods of enforce- ment. As a result we are slowly eliminating tobacco using from the youth of our State. In the average town What a New Book Says or village of Kansas it can be shown that comparatively THE World Book Company of New York few of the minors are using tobacco, and these are be- City has issued a series of health books coming so heavily discredited in a social way and in for use in the public schools. One of these, other respects that the practice continues to grow less Principles of Public Health," by Thos. D. frequent and less popular." Tuttle, B. S., M. D., secretary and executive • M officer of the Montana State Board of Health, has a strong chapter entitled " Com- Two Worthy Examples to Boys mon Poisons to Be Avoided," referring to GENERAL BADEN-POWELL, originator of the Boy Scout tobacco and alcohol. Some of the charges made against movement, does not smoke, and he says: — tobacco follow :— A boy smokes, not because he likes it, but because he Many persons are killing the cells of their bodies by wants to look like a man. Instead, he simply looks like taking certain poisons into them. One of these is tobacco. a little fool, and when he smokes for fear of other fellows When the poison of tobacco is taken into the body, the laughing at him, he shows that he is a coward as well. cells are forced to make an antidote to counteract the President Wilson does not use tobacco. He never effect of the poison. The cells are thus compelled by this smoked but part of one cigar. Tell this to the boy who unnecessary work to neglect what they should do for the thinks tobacco a requisite to manhood. upbuilding of the body. Tobacco smoke irritates the cells that line the throat.and • M nose, and frequently causes catarrh and smokers' throat. AN Indian arrested for drunkenness said, in his own Tobacco lessens the red blood-corpuscles, the oxygen defense, You took away my brains, and you have no carriers. It is the lack of red blood-cells that causes right to punish me." The Indian was right. The gov- many cigarette smokers to look pale and sallow. ernment has no right to license brain-destroying agents, One of the nerves most commonly affected by tobacco and then punish the man unfortunate enough to fall a using is the optic nerve, or the nerve of the eye. One victim to these agents. 22 Tbe Tobacco i)atiit 35 Curable D. H. KRESS, M. D. IDE public- Another writes: Wity has been " I should like to given by the press stop smoking pipes to the free clinic for and cigars, but have the cure of the cig- not the will-power Th. sphygmograph shows that the The sphygmomanometer reveals the pulse of the cigarette boy is feeble. In arette and tobacco to do so." hardened arteries and high blood pres- some Instances it Is difficult to obtain sure of the man who has used tobacco even a tracing, indicating a heart weak- h a b i t, conducted Still another: for many years. These changes, which ened by nicotin and carbon monoxid. may result in sudden heart failure, apo- This makes the boy of short breath, am- daily in Chicago at "While I have a plexy, and Bright's disease, were so bitionless, and irresponsible. the headquarters of good will-power, gradual as to be perhaps imperceptible. the Anti-Cigarette League of America. The aim of this the desire is so strong that I have been unable to stop." clinic was primarily to help the boys, but out of over A woman says: " I have smoked five years. I am now five hundred persons who applied for treatment during the only twenty-three, but am broken down in health." first month, there were less than twenty below seventeen Lack of will-power added to the intense desire is years of age. From this it is evident that the boy of in every ease found to be responsible for the continuance sixteen or below does not appreciate as do older ones the of the tobacco habit, and for the failures in attempting evils resulting from the use of tobacco. In most instances to break it. Any treatment that fails to lessen the desire the boys below seventeen who came were accompanied by and to strengthen the will must therefore be a failure. the father or mother. There are cases upon record where the intense craving The applicants were not toughs nor degenerates: they has been miraculously taken from persons. One rescue represented the best-informed and most conscientious worker said, " When God saves a man, he takes away the and promising material in the city. They were largely appetite if he sees that the victim has not the will-power young men with high ideals and aspirations, but who had to conquer, but otherwise he leaves the appetite to be found tobacco a tremendous handicap in the attainment conquered." of their aims. The question naturally arises, Why does this craving Athletes applied because they were troubled with short- for narcotics, especially for tobacco, exist? So uni-

BOYCOTTERS OF THOSE WHO USE TOBACCO

Our fathers and caar brothers never use tobacco. Do you think, then, we shall ever choose a smoking boy for our friend? No, indeed! ness of breath or weak heart. Bankers, lawyers, and versal is the craving that ninety-five per cent of the men doctors came, complaining of alarming mental and nerv- already are addicted to its use, while a constantly in- ous symptoms. creasing number of boys and women are resorting to it. The number of cigarettes consumed ranged from three This craving is not natural in man. It is a cultivated daily to as high, as two hundred, the average being twenty- one. I went to the home of a mother who was a drunk- seven. Quite a number found it necessary to take from ard to talk and pray with her. As I saw what she ate one to three smokes during the night in order to sleep. and drank at her table, I concluded that prayer alone The youngest applicant was not quite five years of age, would not help the woman. Her foods were highly spiced and consumed about fifteen cigarettes daily. Possibly and very irritating, and her table drinks stimulating. two thirds of the applicants used cigars and the pipe, The excessive use of salt, pepper, mustard, vinegar, and inhaling the smoke just as they did while smoking ciga- the free use of meats, coffee, and tea, all create an un- rettes. The cigarette they claimed no longer satisfied natural craving or thirst which water fails to quench. them. All who applied claimed to have made unsuc- They stimulate the system, or, in other words, produce cessful attempts to give up the practice. an irritable or feverish condition, and narcotics are re- The Anti-Cigarette headquarters has been flooded with sorted to in order to obtain relief. letters from all parts of the country, also from Canada Seventeen years ago a prominent official connected with and England. In every instance intense craving or lack the Chicago city railway was suffering with a serious di- of will-power is given as the reason for appealing for gestive disorder. He was an inveterate tobacco user. I help. One writes: " I have smoked since I was eight found it necessary in treating his digestive trouble to years old. I am now thirty-eight, and have tuberculosis. place him wholly on a non-irritating diet composed of I want to get away from the habit, but my will-power well-baked cereal foods, milk, cream, and fresh subacid is not strong enough." fruits. I urged him to give up tobacco, which he did. 23 At the end of six weeks he came •to my office, and with after having their attention called to the cause of the tears of gratitude in his eyes said : " Doctor, do you know craving, said, " Now I know why after some meals the that tobacco smoke is actually offensive to me? Can you desire to smoke is irresistible, and at other times' I do not explain why it is ? " The only thing to which I could care whether I smoke or not." attribute it was the eliminative baths and the simple diet. One young fellow who had lost his job owing to the That eliminative baths and non-irritating foods will de- fact that he was a cigarette fiend, said, " That reminds stroy the craving for tobacco, I have since been fully able me ; about two weeks ago I was situated for three days to demonstrate. so I could get only apples to eat, and during that time I Another patient who had been a smoker for forty-two had no special desire to smoke." years and addicted to drink, after abandoning irritants One woman who found it necessary to smoke during the and meats, including tea night said she had no and coffee, wrote: " It Testimony of Superintendent of use whatever for fruits seems wonderful to me or sweets of any kind. 0 0 O Oregon Training-School that I have now no crav- Irritating and stimulat- ing for tobacco or drink, T least two thirds of my boys arrive ing foods and drinks and at the school saturated with nicotin, and I also find that I tobacco are so intimately and with cigarette marks on their associated that it is eas- have no more need for fingers and a package of tobacco patent medicines." and cigarette-papers in their pock- ier, much easier, to give The experience of the ets. I believe this to be the direct up both than to attempt editor of the London cause of their delinquency. to give up one without Clarion, as published by It is my opinion that no boy who the other. Many of our himself in an editorial, smokes or chews tobacco will ever applicants for help no agrees with the cases make as good a man physically, doubt would have con- mentioned. He said : — morally, or mentally as he would quered had they gone have made if he had let tobacco If there was one thing in about it in the right way. life that I feared my will alone; and in ninety-nine cases out In every c a s e, unless was too weak to conquer, of a hundred the victims of this there exists a condition it was the smoking habit. habit are complete failures as men, of the digestive organs Well, I have been a vege- while a large percentage do not even reach maturity. tarian for eight weeks, and which would contraindi- The solution need not necessarily come through I find my passion for to- cate it, I recommend a bacco is weakening. It is the making of more laws, but undoubtedly it must astonishing. I cannot come through the strict enforcement of the existing diet composed of well- smoke those b 1 a.c k pipes b a k e d cereals,— shred- now. I have to get new ones, as most of the States have put the ban on pipes and milder tobacco, the cigarette. But this cannot .be accomplished ded-wheat biscuits, corn and I am not smoking half till politics is taken out of law enforcement. Had flakes, puffed wheat and an ounce a day. , It does I but one wish to make, it would be that all liquor rice, well-baked whole- not taste the same ; I am not nearly so fond of it. and tobacco should be wiped off the face of the wheat bread, etc.,— with I am told that this com- earth forever, for not until the production and cream, milk, and butter- monly results from adopt- sale of these things are prohibited can we hope ing a less stimulating diet. to do very much against these two evils which milk, and the liberal use During the past few blight the young manhood and womanhood of our of fresh subacid fruits week s, in connection nation. WILL S. HALE. — peaches, pears, apples, with my clinic, the rela- orange s, pineapples, tion existing between grapefruit, etc.— at the what men eat and their close of the meal, for at craving for tobacco has least two weeks. been more fully demon- I am able to assure my strated. Out of the five patients that by the end hundred cases that ap- of the first week they plied for help, in every will find the desire for case they were • either tobacco lessening. • This liberal users of salt, and expressed a fondness for meats in itself will inspire them with confidence that there and highly seasoned foods, or else they were heavy coffee is possibility of success, and will tend to resurrect the or tea drinkers. I also discovered that the intensity of dormant will. After this the battle is practically won. the craving for tobacco depended upon how liberally they In connection with this diet I also advise eliminative used such foods. For instance, a chef in one of the lead- baths during the first two or three weeks, preferably ing hotels of the city, who used not merely cigarettes, but Turkish baths. The purpose is to eliminate the nicotin cigars and the pipe, inhaling the smoke of each, said, All stored up in the tissues as rapidly as possible. I want for breakfast is two cups of coffee and a couple of The mouth wash, composed of silver nitrate, about doughnuts; for dinner, a pork chop or beefsteak; and the which so much has been said by the public press, is em- same for supper." When I advised him to eat fresh ployed merely as an aid during the first week of the strug- subacid fruits, he said : " It is strange I do not care for gle. Being a poison, it should be used only in a very dilute them. I have the finest fruits to be found in the city form, averaging from one eighth of one per cent to one of Chicago pass through my hands daily, but I never fourth of one per cent solution. It should be used only touch them." after meals during the first three days, and then only Those in whom the craving was most intense all ex- after breakfast the next four days. pressed themselves in much the same way. This was es- That it creates a distaste for tobacco smoke, making pecially found to be the case with those who consumed smoking undesirable, has been fully demonstrated. The from seventy-five to one hundred and fifty cigarettes results obtained by following out the directions, including daily. The one who used the fewest cigarettes, a barber, the wash, diet, and baths, are highly satisfactory. when asked about his diet, said he was practically a vege- ST S5 5',5 tarian, using meat only once a week, and was fond of THEY enslave their children's children who make com- fruit, but also expressed a fondness for coffee. Several, promise with sir....—lames Russell Lowell. A File of Cigarette Buyers We spend for tobacco and liquor the earnings of 4,000,- I STOOD in a drug store in New York City last Septem- 000 workers, or two and one-half times the wages of all ber, and watched for nearly one-half hour a continuous the men on the railroads. line of men and boys file past two clerks who served them The smokers and drinkers are spending for their idols to one or more boxes of cigarettes as fast as they could every twenty-two months as much as the whole Amer- hand them out and take the money in. The chief clerk ican people save and invest in a year. told me that scene was regularly repeated three times Our enormous savings-bank hoard is the wonder and every day, morning, noon, and night, lasting for one envy of Europe, but we spend every month more money hour each time. He also said that on Saturdays from for tobacco and alcohol than we add to our bank savings twelve to three o'clock in a whole year. If a there was a regular elf14111/1 Testimony of Kentucky's Superin- thousand years before crush in the store from ❑ ❑ ❑ tendent of Education ❑ ❑ ❑ the time of Moses, the the number of cigarette ancient Egyptians had customers. He volun- ORE than twenty years' experience begun hoarding a treas- teered the statement that in school work, having taught in ure of gold at the rate he did not approve of the rural schools, been superintend- of a dollar a minute, ent of city schools, and for five the sale of cigarettes, and if ever since then years a member of the faculty of but said it was forced — every minute, day and Western Kentucky State Normal, upon the house. I hon- has shown me that the non-tobacco night, these thousands ored him for the first users are by far the better students. of years — the accumu- part of his observation ; --9 They have greater powers of con- lation of this treasure but was sorry that he tinuance, are clearer thinkers, and had continued, the failed to realize that one possess more apt perception and golden hoard would to- cannot be forced to stronger will-power. This is more day be five hundred prove untrue to one's noticeable in the games and ath- years short of the twen- convictions. letics of the school than in the class- ty-seven hundred million It would seem by the room. I have rarely known a boy dollars we spend in one slightly addicted to the tobacco habit who could business done at this year for alcohol and to- maintain himself on the athletic field. I think one bacco. store that it was about who has observed or studied this question would the only place in New say without hesitance that the use of tobacco, es- A stack of twenty- York where cigarettes pecially in the period of one's mental and physical seven hundred million could be obtained. Even growth, is very injurious. Kentucky is a tobacco dollar bills would tower if the city directory did State, and a large per cent of the male population one hundred and forty not reveal the fact that has the tobacco habit, and I am sorry to say that miles in the sky, far there were thousands of even the women and girls in not a few instances beyond the earth's at- other tobacco dealers in are given to its use in some form. I heartily en- mosphere. In thousand- dorse and support all means toward educating the the c i t y, we should dollar gold certificates, youth of our land away from this most injurious know there could be no the stack would be habit. V. 0. GILBERT. dearth of dealers with higher than the Wool- more than two hundred worth Building in New cigarette manufacturers York. in the city. At Christ- Are the smokers and mas-time last year one drinkers personally ben- tobacco store in the city efited by all this ex- sold $30,000 worth of to- penditure of money ? — bacco goods in one day. Not one whit. Science, The Bible says, " It observation, and experi- must needs be that of- ence show that no one fenses come; but woe to that man by whom the offense is benefited thereby, while many are greatly injured. cometh ! " To pass out the deadly cigarette is an offense Then truly, " What fools we mortals be ! " against our American boyhood which we fear will receive the retribution threatened in this text by Him who died for every human being. Do Soldiers Need Rum? THE following striking testimony from Colonel Leh- manousky, who had been twenty-three years in the armies For the Thinking Person of Napoleon Bonaparte, answers this question well. Tall, MR. FRANK FAYANT had an article in Munsey's Maga- erect, and vigorous, with a glow of health upon his cheek, zine for October, 1913, entitled " $2,700,000,000 a Year for he arose before an audience and said: — Liquor and Tobacco," in which were many comparisons You see before you a man seventy years old. I have fought and statements making more comprehensible the vast sum in two hundred battles, have fourteen wounds on my body, have spent yearly in this country for liquor and tobacco. For lived thirty days on horse-flesh, with the bark of trees for my bread, snow and ice for my drink, the canopy of heaven for my instance: — covering, without stockings or shoes on my feet, and only a few All the money in circulation in the United States now rags of clothing. In the deserts of Egypt, I have marched for reaches the huge sum of $3,600,000,000. This is $38 for days with a burning sun upon my naked head ; feet blistered in the scorching sand, and with eyes, nostrils, and mouth filled with every man, woman, and child. The smoke and drink bill dust ; and with a thirst so tormenting that I have opened the foots up $28 for every inhabitant. veins of my arms and sucked my own blood. Do you ask how I survived all these horrors? I answer that, under the providence The combined profits of all our manufacturing and in- of God, I owe my preservation, my health and vigor, to this dustrial companies, banks and similar financial institu- fact, that I never drank a drop of spirituous liquor in my life; tions, railroads, telegraphs, telephones, and other public and Baron Larrey, chief of the medical staff of the French army, has stated as a fact that the six thousand survivors who safely service corporations, are less than our expenditures for returned from Egypt were all of them men who abstained from smoking and drinking. ardent spirits. 25 Zaibat liquor fib for Vottagon'5 lamitp N a wigwam built of bark and poles beside an Lonidaw, standing on the si.ore, saw the crash and I inland lake in northern Michigan, once lived heard the scream. She wildly cried, " Save, save, do save the Indian chief Simon Pokagon, with his my child!" But the men, paralyzed by the deadly drug, wife, Lonidaw, and their two children. As continued their drinking and idiotic laughter, taking no their children, Olandaw and Hazeleye, grew, notice of the struggling child. their education became a question of serious Lonidaw, in her frenzy, plunged into the water and consideration. Pokagon himself was educated swam desperately until she became exhausted. Zowan, in the English language and could speak four returning from the hunt in time to hear the screams, other languages. His wife was uneducated, rushed into the lake and soon reached the scene. As soon except as nature had educated her, and that as Lonidaw felt the touch of the dog, she grasped his was no mean part. long hair, although she had sunk and risen twice, and They both greatly feared the influence of with a desperate struggle he drew her to the shore, and schools in leading their children into intemperance. One then ran to the woods to meet his master, who was home- day a black-robed priest wandered to the Indian wigwam ward bound with a deer on his back. By Zowan's strange to see the little archers try their skill. After this he fre- cry Pokagon knew something was wrong. He quickly quently visited them, and finally requested that he be threw down his burden and hurriedly followed the dog, permitted at his own expense to take Olandaw to a white finding Lonidaw unconscious. After he had carried her man's school that he might be prepared to render greater in his arms to•the wigwam and used all his powers to service to his race. restore her, she gained enough consciousness to tell the The mother hesitated, but after Pokagon had given his story in a disconnected manner, then sank back and died, consent she reluctantly gave hers, but not until she had leaving Pokagon with only his dog. Thus did strong exacted a solemn promise drink rob the Indian from the priest that the chief of his family. boy should be guarded Pokagon was a strong against intoxicants. advocate of temperance. When Olandaw was He made one of the twelve years old, he, with speeches that was deliv- the priest, left their wig- ered at the world's fair wam home for a three- in Chicago, in 1893, and year term of schooling. urged that it were better His father visited him to leave the Indian to once during his absence, himself than to educate but his mother did not him at so great risk. see him until the three MRS. E. H. KYNETT. years had passed. On his return home, his faithful dog Zowan ran to meet A Prisoner's Dark him, and all were glad to Experience see him. While his I WAS born and reared mother was caressing him on a farm, a n d till with tearful eyes, she eighteen years old I kept suddenly gave a scream, my promise to my stepped back, and in her By permission of Curtis Publishing COMPally mother that tobacco and It is well that Uncle Sam should be concerned over the needless loss of native tongue exclaimed: life by floods; but let him remember, too, that every year several liquor should be un Daytona are destroyed by the liquor traffic. " My son ! my son ! what touched. have you done? What have you done?" She gazed into A friend who was the storekeeper of the county in the boy's face, then at her husband, and cried out through which I lived, told me he would never speak to me again her tears, " He is lost ! he is lost! I smell the dragon's if I did not drink, and that he would think I had a grudge breath." His father then asked, " Have you any fire- against him or felt myself above him socially if I re- water about you?" Olandaw drew a bottle from his fused liquor. I took the bottle after he had coaxed me pocket and dashed it to the floor, saying in broken tones, a full half-hour, and put it to my lips and drank. I can " I'll never touch it again." His unsatisfactory explana- never forget that moment. The vow I had made to my tions only served to deepen their sorrow. mother was broken, and the devil came in and took full The chief, in relating the sad story, said: " I do not possession of me. My mother died a short time after wish to bleed my own heart, nor sadden yours: .suffice it this, happily in ignorance of my sin. I was away from to say, as darkness succeeds the meteor's sudden glare, home the day she died, but her last words were, " Tell so his life went out and left us in the midnight of despair. Frank to be a man." " Dear little Hazeleye, a sweet rosebud, just opening By the side of my dead mother I vowed never to drink into maidenhood, was then our only hope: and as our again, but in three days I yielded 'to the tempter. For a hearts were bound up in her, we consoled ourselves with long time I drank only occasionally. After my father's the assurance that she was so isolated from the alluring death, I took up horseshoeing with the village smithy, an serpent that she was safe from all harm that might come excellent blacksmith, but a heavy drinker. Under his from such a source." influence I went down swiftly. Later I became a pro- But the rum demon was not yet ddhe with the old fessional gambler, and for ten years followed this life. chief for while Pokagon was one day on a deer hunt, In 1910 I came to Washington State, where I had an and Hazeleye was fishing on the lake, two drunken fisher- excellent position given me, which I soon lost. Delirium men, recklessly rowing their boat, ran into her bark canoe, tremens came more than once, and in spite of a strong broke and capsized it, throwing her into the lake. constitution the time was reached when I knew that death 26 must soon result. One Thursday evening I sat in a sa- ward plunge her into still greater despair. What that loon in Seattle, a homeless, friendless drunkard. I had woman needed was the Spirit of Christ instead of spir- pawned or sold everything that would bring drink. I ituous drink; but she did not know it, and none helped could not sleep unless I was drunk. I had not eaten for her to discover the fact. days, and for two nights preceding I had suffered with Arthur Burrage Farwell, the well-known president of delirium tremens, or the horrors, from midnight till morn- the Chicago Law and Order League, says that on first ing. Under these circumstances I com- starting out as a traveling salesman, when mitted crime, and now here I am in a some business man would turn him down felon's cell. abruptly, it would affect him as if a stag- I have a Bible that was given me when gering blow had been given him between I was in the county jail, and I read it his eyes. He said it thus affects the aver- daily, and the more I read it the more in- age young salesman, many of whom, in terested I become in it. I am sure the order to recover their courage, go to the Lord will help me to overcome the temp- saloon and get a glass of liquor. But he tations of Satan. I had smoked 'for would go to his room in the hotel, open many years, but this also I gave up a his Bible, read some inspiring' verses, get few months ago. FRANK HALL. down on his knees and ask for the Holy Spirit, and then his soul would be reloaded with dynamite, and he could go to the next The Twentieth-Century Cry customer with an irresistible courage. Liq- SAVE to the mothers their babes, save uor is Satan's substitute for the Spirit of God, and the inspired Word counsels men to the nation its children, is the twenti- Please vote for us. eth-century cry of noble-hearted, phil- to " be not drunk with wine, . . . but be anthropic men and women. Impure food, insanitary filled with the Spirit." Most men drink because they so conditions, neglect, factory labor, and the liquor traffic desperately crave the good feeling that liquor temporarily are all claiming their toll of child life; but the liquor imparts, and not because they enjoy the taste of it. Who traffic is the White Mountain flier which in its mad course has not seen a half-intoxicated man endeavor to embrace through the earth is every year crushing thousands of his worst enemy, forgetting his hatred, poverty, and mis- helpless babes to death. From out the debris of the eries? Thousands of men smoke tobacco for ex- great wreck of the Bar Harbor express was actly the same reason. They hate the stuff, heard the pleading voice of one mother they begrudge the money that it costs, but crying, " I am here with my baby. Please they crave the unearned felicity that to- come and get the baby. I do not care bacco temporarily furnishes. Thousands what happens to me, but get the child. of women drink strong tea or coffee, Save him." This cry set men franti- knowing it to be a poison instead of cally to work over the debris from a food, simply because they have dis- which the cry came, but they were held covered that they can get a temporary back by relentless masses of twisted good feeling from these so-called stim- steel until the woman's pleadings ceased. ulants. How much better it would be Both mother and babe perished before if they could only learn to wait on the would-be rescuers could save them. From Lord so as to renew their strength. Isa. all over this land of ours, yes, from all over 4o : 31. A million of our fellow citizens are the world, in every language of earth, comes For me, too. slaves to morphin for exactly the same reason; a wail from mothers whose children are being and he who attempts to deliver them from this ruthlessly crushed down by the death-dealing liquor traf- drug and does not also introduce them to the uplifting fic ; and besides Rachel weeping for her children, we hear and inspiring influence of the gospel, is engaged in a the cry of broken-hearted wives whose husbands have fruitless task. been mercilessly torn from them, and of loving sisters Remove the Cause whose brothers have been robbed of their young manhood. The thoughtful worker in this field will not only aid We hear, for we cannot help doing so; but do we act? his fellow men to be "filled with the Spirit" instead of Are we making any effort to free these suffering ones? wine, but he will also interest himself in those causes that Those who would go to their relief are cruelly hindered produce the terrible depression of which Satan takes and restrained from rendering the advantage to lead his victim to the• service they might, by the indiffer- fascinating, delusive effect of poi- ence or dishonesty of public officials, sonous stimulants. legislators, and voters. First and foremost is, of course, One baby in five dies before it is one year old. Investigations show that 55 per cent of sin,— naked, unvarnished sin. The the children of alcoholic parents die under two Which Spirit? years of age. Nearly three times as many of second is like unto it, but more diffi- the children of heavy drinkers die in the first cult to discern because we politely A HAGGARD, care-worn woman year as do those of obstalning parents. staggered down a Chicago street. Trou- - call it " dietetic errors," which result ble and misery had worn deep furrows 1111111111 in autointoxication, overwhelming the on her face, but she laughed as she 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 system with poisons that depress, irri- reeled from side to side. It was a tate, and harass the nerves in such a strange, unnatural laugh, yet it was a 1 1 1 1 1 way as to demand incessantly the tem- laugh,— something unusual for her. Out of the 61 children of 10 temperate porary soothing effect of tea, coffee, to- families 5 died in infancy; while out of The liquor she had drunk in her despair the 57 children of 10 intemperate fami- bacco, liqucr, and similar drugs. Let lies 25 died In infancy. had temporarily resurrected the laugh of us, then, in our crusade against intem- her care-free girlhood. Every one has a divine right to perance first of all introduce our fellow men to the per- laugh; but sin had robbed this woman of her divine her- manently satisfying, uplifting influence of the Spirit of itage, and that she might even for •a few moments forget God. Let us next teach them how to eat " for strength, her misery, she took the cursed drink which would after- and not for drunkenness." DAVID PAULSON', M. D.

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Ittett5e or robibition Etibicb? IVE me famine without the liquor traffic, and " Poor dry Kansas ! " There are no respectable( ?), I will fare better than in years of plenty or otherwise, bresYers in Kansas. The man who engages with the traffic! " cries Ireland out of her in any part of the liquor business there is in the same 4 past experience. The years of 1809, 'Jo, '13, class as the horse thief or burglar. '14 saw great scarcity in Ireland. By wise The habit of social' drinking is in disrepute. If a forecast the distilleries were stopped. In the better party in power in Kansas should make a practice of put- years of 1811, '12, '15, '16,— better but for distillation and ting even beer on its banquet tables, that fact would unchecked drinking,— 3,250,000 more gallons of liquor be an issue big enough to vote the party out of power. were used than in the years of scarcity. In the four years The use of liquor, even as a medicine, is fast dis- of famine with the distilleries closed, the Irish people appearing. Practically every. .newspaper in the State is for the pro- hibition law and its enforcemennt. Of the 800 papers in the State, there is not one that prints liquor adver- tisements. The largest per capita wealth is in Kansas. More people own their own homes there than in any other State. Kansas has proportionately the fewest paupers of any State. Half of her county jails are empty. She has only one convicted prisoner in her county jails for every 7,000 inhabitants, and 75 per cent of these are there for violation of the prohibitory law. In more than half her counties there is not an idiot, "WET'. AND "DRY" MAP OF UNITED STATES, JANUARY 1, 191& and only 18 out of the To5 counties furnish any insane to ,the asylums. bought and paid for haberdashery, iron, hardware, and Only 9 counties of the 105 have an inebriate. cotton goods to the amount of £253,657, or $1,268,285, In view of these facts, waste no sympathy on Kansas, more than in the four years of plenty named; of tea or , on any of the prohibition States. Every State in the and sugar, 773,911 pounds more were bought by them; Union Would do well to follow their example. of yards of drapery they used 1,356,070 more; and slept ER ER under 33,401 more woolen blankets. Revenue Schemes- The experience of individuals, toyvns, counties, and states declares infallibly that there is no surer or better WHEN the Duke of Alva went to the Netherlands, he way to help any legitimate industry or for 'it to help itself thought he had hit upon the most brilliant scheme of than by the outlawing of the liquor traffic, which is a revenue ever. invented. Words could not express his menace to every useful or desirable thing. delight and triumph at its facility. His only wonder was Maine places in insane asylums less than one half that no one had thought of it before. It was ", popular," as many persons proportionately as does high-license Massachusetts. If the homicidal mania prevailing in Louisville, Kentucky, with its 75o saloons, had prevailed in Maine, she would have had 188 homicides last year instead of 3. In Portland, Maine, 49 per cent of the people own their homes. " There is no spot on earth where the saloon exists that can show such a record." In New York, with its 30,000 saloons, only one family in six owns its own home. In prohibition North Dakota 74 per cent of the families own their own 'homes, but in her more favorably situated twin State, license South Da- kota, only 69 per cent are home owners. The prohibition States, taken together, have a larger per cent of the children of school age enrolled as pupils than any other class of States. WET" AND "DRY" MAP OF THE UNITED STATES -1893. Pauperism as studied in 33 cities, averaged a cost 79 per cent higher in the license than in the no-license cities. too, with his retainers and his royal master. The king Worcester, Massachusetts, showed 12 per cent more had screwed out all the money he dared by direct taxa- neglect and non-support of families during the license tion, yet had been always cramped for funds, in debt to year than during the no-license year, though the city was his soldiers and his servants, and with a grumbling people not entirely free from drink any of the time. There were to boot. Alva relieved him instantly of all this per- also 69 per cent, more patients in the alcohol ward and plexity, and gaYe him more money than he ever had be- more deaths by 400 per cent in the license year than in fore. He kept his troops fat and well fed, with gold rings the no-license year. The deaths from all causes were and jewels for the common soldiers to gamble over in 20 per cent higher under license than under the no-license the guard-room. He did not increase the taxes, and — regime. within his administration — nobody grumbled. His North Carolina " ruined " by prohibition? — Not quite ! method of raising a revenue was sublime in its simplicity Since her prohibitory law was enacted four years ago, and directness. It was simply to cut off the head of any- she has established 86 new banks, and nearly doubled her body who had anything, and then take all he had. Taxes deposits, having increased them by $44,188,126. of ten or fifteen per cent became contemptible beside this 28 ample scheme. It is said that the When heaven pronounces a woe, it president of the " Bloody Council," will fall sometime, and there is no which conducted the details of the doubt it will fall upon the voter for business, suffered from terrible night- license and the owner of property de- mares, in which he imagined blood to voted to the liquor traffic, as well as be dripping from the walls and furni- upon him who stands behind the bar ture. But the duke was superior to and passes out the drink. any such sensitiveness, and went on The liquor traffic is an accursed busi- his popular and prosperous way. ness, and he whose hands are tainted There was found, however, to be in any degree with the odium of the one great difficulty with his invention. D. vile traffic will sometime receive just Adapted front Jersey Journal Killing the producers stops production ; retribution from the incensed Creator Congress: I don't know just where to and where production puts nothing in, strike this beast. and Redeemer of mankind. Now is Liquor friends: If you must strike, not even tyranny can get anything out. strike about there. the time to divorce oneself forever Prohibitionists: The only way to reg- The number of rich men is limited ; ulate this evil is to strike it a heavy from the business of destroying one's and when they are decapitated for blow Just behind the ears. brother, and filling the world with public expenses, the supply may run out. As this fact preventable wretchedness. began to appear, the scheme declined in popularity. M The shrewder Yankee has hit upon an ampler scheme. He will not execute the rich men, except incidentally. What Shall We Do With the Liquor Traffic? More money can be made out of the wholesale slaughter A CONSTITUTIONAL evil requires a constitutional rem- of the middle classes and the poor. There are plenty of edy. Away then with powders and pills, peppermint and them. The supply will not soon run out. pipsissewa. To maintain that revenue requires the slaughter of tens For the physical leprosy, moral meningitis, lnental hy- of thousands of men every year. But the revenue is said drophobia, and criminal civil excrescence, all in one, con- to be " the easiest of all revenues to collect." The man ceived in sin, shapen in iniquity, born in bastardy, nur- who is killed never objects, because he never believes he tured upon impurity, wedded to harlotry, and mother of is going to be killed. The system is superior to electricity anarchy, give us the surgeon's knife ! in this respect; the awful chair, with its straps and wires, We must cut this cancer out. plainly speaks to the condemned of coming doom ; but the No matter what have been our methods of warfare in the saloon gives no warning that disturbs its victim. He past, we can no longer be content with trimming here and talks loudly of his "personal liberty," while the deadly there a branch, with closing here and there a saloon, coils are fastened around him. The man who kills him with casting it out of this ward and out of that town and does not object, be- county where the peo- cause he makes so ple do not want it, and much in the process consent to leave it for that he can easily another two years furnish the moderate where a bare majority revenue the govern- of the most ignorant, ment demands.— immoral, and criminal " Economics of Pro- men — part of the peo- hibition," by James ple — do want it. C. Fernald. To let the saloon live anywhere, on any con- dition, at any price, God Defied whether by license, reg- ulation, substitution, lo- ROBERT G. INGER- cal option, or nullifica- SOLL, it is said, one tion, is the remedy of time when lecturing, perdition; to kill it is the divine remedy for took out his watch sin.— Clinton N. How- and said, " I will give ard. God five minutes to gi A A strike me dead for • ----- the things I have Why Not? said." The minutes •"'" • • •-:\.< ,•••••, _ EIGHT days of fren- ticked off as he held *."A \ ..v8Ai zied work, in which no his watch and waited. Aa energy nor expense When the• time was was spared, were de- up, he put his watch voted recently to get- away, boasting over ting just one man out the fact that he had The vulnerable spot! strike the neck of the hydra and all the of a Pennsylvania mine heads will fall together. received no h a r m. in which he had been When the news of this bold act was flashed across the imprisoned by a cave-in. One of the company, in describ- waters to the great Joseph Parker, he calmly remarked, ing the event, said: — " And did the gentleman think he could exhaust the pa- Over too of our men struggled with unstinted devotion and tience of eternal God in five minutes ? " energy, like a pack of beavers gnawing continuously through The Lord is long-suffering and of great patience; but solid rock and glass-like coal, racing even with time itself, and because he bears long with an evil work does not pre- frequently at the risk of their own lives, all for the purpose of saving alive, if possible, their comrade. clude the fact that a day of retribution will surely come. And for ages the heavenly warning has been ringing out, Thousands of dollars were used in this effort; yet no " Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, that put- one questioned the propriety of the expenditure, nor would test thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken." he if it had been many times the amount. Yet from 29 every part of the country goes up a wail because of the demand that " prohibition be written into the federal Con- effort being made to save a hundred thousand men and stitution." But the cry, " On to Washington ! " will not boys a year from drunkards' graves. The liquor traffic be obsolete until both houses of Congress grant the peti- and its voting friends cry, " We shall lose the internal tion by voting for the utter annihilation of the liquor revenue, and our taxes will- be traffic as a national legalized in- increased. We can't afford it." On to Washington. dustry. SOLON W. BI MOHAN (MALE VOICES.) 3. IL HERBERT. Better that thousands of men Allegretto. and boys fill drunkards' graves, ,r e both soul and body being eter- I. We've a task on handvle-mand-ing all our gumption. grace and grit, Since we've Things to Think About 2. High li cense lo cal op - tins makes a might- y pow'r-tut hit, We are nally destroyed ; better that 3. There are ma - ny men who've missed the mark because they did not try,We are THE annual report of the tru- wives, children, and friends of ant officer of Passaic, New Jer- these be caused untold sorrow sey, for 1912, says that eighty- and suffering, than that the liquor one schoolchildren were intoxi- traffic and its friends lose the cated during the year. Could start - ed out for Wash-jug-ton, you know; We must must -er all ear financial benefits( ?) of the traf- march- ing on to Wash-ing-ton, you know; It will do for saint and march- ing on to Wash-ing-ton, you know; So while we're trusting such a disastrous state of affairs fic ? Heaven's mandate to you have occurred in a dry town? who seek to conserve your re- " We must teach the liquor sources by such disastrous results men," says Gov. Ben B. Hooper, to others is, " Whosoever shall ::••••••••• " that their shibboleth, ' personal seek to save his life shall lose it." liberty,' is not greater than per- cm- age now, and bright-en up our wit; Since we've start ed out for sin - nee, too, they both can sane - ties it; We are march- ing on to sonal responsibility to God , and EN 211 in the Lord, well keep our pow - der dry; We are march- ing on to man." Cast Aside as Worthless Remember to work for the out- THE liquor people are surely lawing of the 4,000 or 5,000 en — hard pressed when they are com- mima. IOW breweries and distilleries rather I pelled to relinquish their much- Wash • ing-ton, you know. Well storm the to - cal fort- resaes with than to direct all your effort Wash - ing-ton, you know. But some-how Pro - hi- bi - tionists don't worn, though ineffective, argu- Wash ing-ton, you know. Let us, then, be up and do - ing while the against the 250,00o saloons, ment that prohibition does not which must cease to operate when prohibit. But they have done their supply is cut off. this, for the National Liquor Remember, when a man tells Dealers' Journal says: — /717. .) n_ 1you that saloons are better than blind pigs, and that blind pigs The argument that prohibition does Pro - hi - hi - thin shot, We will heat up nil the temp'rance iron and seem to be in-clined To en- dorse the "Mod - el Li - ar's League." and not prohibit is merely one of ex- liq • nor deal - ere prate Of their won - der - ful re form-ing, they're a flourish in prohibition territory, pediency; it is neither moral nor eth- to r e m i n d him that Chicago ical. If no better reason can be 9117 * presented by the friends of the alco- alone, with its 8,000 saloons, has holic liquor trade, their discomfiture more blind pigs selling liquor is sure. without a license than the entire I r • The same organ seeks to rally ham - mer while they're hot, We must make the most of pros eat time. (Its nine prohibition States. tag a - long be - hind, So when they take so-count of stock, the the liquor forces to renewed bat- ban dred years too late, Times are mov - mg, right is win - sing, fall in " The meanest slave-driver in tle by disclosing a situation that pe the time of slavery was not they admit means certain death meaner nor more covetous than to them if victory goes to the the man who will vote to per- temperance people. It says: — petuate the liquor traffic because .4-- (Spuktn.) i I The united forces of the opposition all the time we've got,) We're marching on to Washington, you know. he thinks it will lessen his taxes." will strive to write prohibition of the li-cease crowd will Sod We're marching on to Washington, you know. " The ballot's highest loyalty is manufacture, importation, and sale of line and catch the gait, We're marching on to Washington, you know. alcoholic liquors into the federal Con- to conscience, not to party." stitution. If they succeed, it is the Four hundred men, native Af- death-knell of the liquor business as ricans, walked six hundred miles, a recognized industry. C101We.

1-1 IMP1111111 111," to receive baptism from the one Can they succeed? ==i1rAri_ To amend the Constitution requires 7.e1M.•=•=41M• M known to them only as " the mis- the ratification of three fourths of Come on! Come on! the Pro - hi • hi - tion cry; Come on! Come sionary who does not use to- the States, or thirty-six of our forty- Come on! Come on! Come owl eight commonwealths. Nine of these bacco." Inconceivable as it may Mir MK a1,..•,==.1fl ame -. - - • t are now entirely in the prohibition INA IMINIril=1"MM seem, there must then be some column, and eighteen more are in major area and policy under local Second tenor sing small notes. missionaries who use tobacco ! prohibition laws; it will not be diffi The jury of a circuit court of cult to swing these eighteen into line Illinois recently awarded a Chi- if the question of national prohibition on! Well vote the country dry! We're going to force the battle till the is raised, but irritation aroused by Come on! cago 'woman $5,000 against four the inefficiency of local or even State saloon-keepers for selling intoxi- prohibition turns the mind and pur pose of its friends to a national pol- cants to her husband, which icy with the strength of the whole caused him to serve time in the government behind it ; thus we may Bridewell penitentiary. Another safely count on twenty-seven States as sure to ratify the national amend- Rummie's cake is bask We're marching on to Washington, yen know. jury in that same State gave each to Washington, yoaknow.. ment; nine more are needed, and it. of three children a verdict of judging from recent experience, es- $3,000 against a saloon-keeper pecially the West Virrinia case, the possibility to get them is not a super- who killed their father in a quar- Copyright Fillmore Bros. Used by permission human task. rel. Let others call for damages. As the liquor dealers feared, " On to Washington ! " We do not object to making the "liquor traffic pay some- the slogan of our temperance forces, has become a reality; thing toward the harm it has done," but we do object for on Dec. io, 1913, we went to Washington in the form to selling it the privilege to do harm. of a human petition consisting of hundreds of the nation's Sixty-five fraternal orders will not allow liquor dealers best citizens, representing every State in the Union, to to join them. Thde's a reason for the discrimination. 30 Presenting to Senator Sheppard and to Congressman Robson a petition to Congress for national Constitutional prohibition of the liquor traffic. Tbrougb tberfe Cpez HE saloon should everywhere and always be ascends to the ear of God,— a cry for vengeance against treated as an enemy to mankind. There can the one who makes the poison, the one who dispenses it, be no compromise. The cry for a respect- and the one who stands by and sees the helpless stricken able saloon " will be recognized by temper- down but makes no effort to stay the murderer's hand. ance workers and Christian people as a bid No excuse I can make in the judgment will drown the for bigger business, and that business is to make good men voice of my brother's blood. MEADE MACGUIRE. bad, and bad men worse. It is the business of the church As well might one say that the state is invading his to make bad men good, and good men better. The saloon personal liberty because it prohibits the erection of a would kill the church if it could; the church could kill powder-magazine in the center of a densely popUlated the saloon if it would. E. K. SLADE. section as to claim that the prohibition of the liquor traf- THE most vicious element in all society, the man fic is an invasion of his personal liberty. The powder- who, in my opinion, above all others should be be- magazine would be the lesser evil of the two, for it hind the safe-keeping of locks and bars, is the man would be destructive of only the present life, while the who can dissipate for a term of years and not suffer its liquor traffic is destructive of both the present and the woeful consequences immediately. He is the man who is future life. K. C. RUSSELL. saying, Come on, boys. I have walked this road many E E years unharmed, and you can safely do the same." The Drunken Man at Church many who die or go to ruin early, of course cannot give THERE came into a prominent church one evening a the warning they would otherwise give. B. E. NICOLA. man so under the influence of liquor that he disturbed the EMPEROR TAU KUANG had tried in vain to shut Indian meeting. He left the service four times, each time re- opium out of China. Trade interests, backed by gun- turning to his seat far to the front. Timely advice finally boats, had defeated Mb. Urged by the British repre- quieted him, and after the sermon the minister urged him sentative at Hongkong to license the traffic and derive to become a Christian that night. The man said it was a rich revenue from it, this heathen emperor (in 1843) of no use; he could not live a Christian life. The min- replied : — ister persuaded him to kneel at the altar. Finally the man It is true that I cannot prevent the introduction of the almost vehemently demanded, " If God should forgive my flowing poison ; gain-seeking and corrupt men will, for profit and sins, and I determine to live for him, tell me where I sensuality, defeat my wishes; but nothing will induce me to derive a revenue from the vice and misery of my people. shall go ! " W. A. SPICER. " Where you shall go? What do you mean?" Then the man said, " There are eight open saloons THE God of heaven has made me master of my own that I must pass on my way home, and I cannot get by destiny; if I indulge an appetite for strong drink, it be- any one of them without smelling the accursed stuff; and comes my master, and my destiny is sealed. if I smell it, I am lost. Tell me where I shall go!" LILLIAN S. CONNERLY. And the minister did not know what to say: but he has THE Lord said to Cain, " The voice of thy brother's since been doing all in his power to clear the way for blood crieth unto me from the ground." Had he em- men who cannot pass the open saloon unharmed. " Make ployed some one else to strike the blow, the blood would ready the king's highway by the abolition of the Honor still have tittered its cry against Cain. For every inno- traffic ! is the cry of the Anti-Saloon League, and of cent life crushed out by the cruel demon of drink, a cry every other temperance force in the world. us Ns Zbe iDernon ;Drink Metall ;Deficription L. A. HANSEN Designed for evil, sin defending, Defiling man, God's mold defacing, Despising worth, the pure deluding, Devoid of good, low depths descending, Debauching him and e'er debasing, Despoiling virtue and denuding, Departing right, for wrong deciding, Deceiving mind, high aims defeating, Defaming woman and decoying, Despising justice, law deriding, Deforming body, strength depleting, Deserting wives and homes destroying, Denouncing truth, her rights denying, Defouling all in desecration, Despairing life with devastation, Deranging order, courts defying, Depraving all in degradation, Demanding toll,— full deprivation,— Deorganizing, Debilitating, Devitalizing, Demoralizing, Degenerating, Dehumanizing, Despiteful curse of hell's devising. Decaying scourge and desolating. Destructive rum is demonizing. 31 A State of Preparedness " Why do you arrest my husband, and let the man DEERS who made him drunk go WINES SECRETARY DANIELS, in a speech made to the officers free? " The officer could not tell why. WHISKIEs and crew of the battle-ship " Idaho," said: — RuMeGiti There is never time to " make ready " in any truly great crisis in life. What is a growing navy worth unless manned by men who live in a state of preparedness? A state of continual preparedness is no less a condition of success in the business and professional world than in the navy. Every boy or young man who maintains such a state of preparedness is habitually at his best physically and mentally. But no one can be at his best who is ad- dicted to the use of either liquor or tobacco. Col. Mervin Maus, chief surgeon of the eastern division of the United States Army, recognized this fact when he said : — No one who uses alcoholic beverages should be appointed to any important position, civil or military, to the command of military or naval forces, or any other position of importance and responsibility. Alcohol lessens the working capacity, marching endurance, ac- curacy and rapidity of movement, ability to command troops and solve military problems, to navigate and maneuver vessels, to Sam's men, followed the creek path, and found and ar- perform administrative work properly, to develop the intellect and fit one for the higher duties and responsibilities of life. rested the illicit dealers. When the lawbreakers learned It causes sickness, impairs health and usefulness, adds greatly that morning that they were in danger of being caught, to the non-efficiency of both officers and men, adds a great bur- den and cost to the medical department, deprives the government they emptied all the whisky into the little creek, and of otherwise valuable officers and enlisted men, and forces them the poor fish had been forced to drink it in the water. to be retired at a much earlier period than they should be under proper, temperate conditions of living. " The men did not stop to arrest the fish," said one to whom this story was told, " but they went right after the people who made and sold the poison stuff. I wonder The Tipsy Fish why they don't do that here in Middleton. When they YEARS ago up in the hills of Ohio, some men made a see poor Pete Billings come staggering down the street, business of manufacturing whisky,—" moonshine," they or hear old Dan Ross beating his wife and baby, why called it,— and they secretly and illegally sold it to peo- don't they just go to the place where the whisky was sold ple for miles around, even sending it to distant places in and shut it up tight forever and ever? That's what Uncle casks marked " flour " or " sugar." Sam should see is done."— Un- At last Uficle Sam's officers ion Signal. heard of it, and men were sent to hunt for the place. Stopping beside a little creek, one of the A Question men, with a laugh, said: " If THE British Society for the brooks could talk, as the poets Prevention of Cruelty to Chil- try to make us believe, that lit- dren claims that during last year tle stream might tell us the 159,407 children under the soci- secret we want to know ; for ety's direct observation suffered I'm sure many a cask of whisky at the hands of drunken persons, Pure Water Cigarette Solution Alcohol % has gone down this Beautiful Paler and Water and that 1,143 of them died from way on dark nights." Green Scraggly Dwa ed the cruelty or neglect of these " At least it shall Oats grown by Mrs. W. W. Heberton, Wayne, Pa. drunken men and women. Our give us a drink," said the other man, getting own societies report similar appalling cruelty to our off his horse and going to the side of the American children on the part of whisky-soaked parents. creek. But instead of drinking he looked Is it not absolutely criminal for governments to, license curiously into the water. the business responsible for such outrages to defenseless. What have you found ? " called the other. children ? Something queer," was the reply. " Come E E and look." " Well, if these aren't the queer- Petition to Congress est-acting fish ! " exclaimed his To the Honorable, the Senate and House of Repre- companion. Near the surface of sentatives of the United States: — the water hundreds of fish were Whereas scientific research has demonstrated that alcohol is a nar- cotic poison; and whereas it is universally recognized as the eneLly seen to be flopping and wriggling of the family and of the state, bringing into the home misery, dis- and twisting in a most peculiar cord, anxiety, tears, sickness, poverty, cruelty, and death; making the best of fathers brutal and coarse; ruining health and degrading manner, and floating helplessly multitudes of youth, who, apart from it, would be good sons and about, performing all sorts of un- desirable citizens; and entailing unnecessary burdens upon the, fishlike antics. state's taxpayers, upon business and labor; and wasting the nation's resources, we, the undersigned, adult residents of 45.6 Yrs. 31.9 Yrs. 15.5 Yrs. " These fish have a dose of therefore petition the Congress of the United States to strike a Long line represents quick, fatal blow at these evils, by prohibiting the sale, manufac- life of abstainer; middle whisky," said one of the men, at line, life of tippler; and the same time dipping up some of ture for sale, and importation or exportation for sale, of alcoholic short line, life of drink- liquors as a beverage, as set forth in the Joint Resolution S. J. er. Total abstainers live the water and tasting it. " Just Res. 88 and H. J. Res. 168: — on an average nearly fourteen years longer as I thought — alcohol ! The se- than the moderate drinker, and thir t y cret is out, and the fish have years longer than the drinker. Who is respon- told it." sible for these lost years? Are not, all That n i g h t the two officers, whose voter perpetuate accompanied by others of Uncle the liquor traffic? 32 Tbing5 for you to 0 ALK with the voters; give them an abun- Present the power of the gospel to deliver from every dance of temperance literature; teach them evil habit the man who has altogether lost out because of the right use of the ballot. drink. Ship owners and seamen generally regard the " Ti- Concentrate your most effective weapons tanic " beyond the reach of divers; but an inventor and upon the task of persuading the man who practical engineer claims that by a secret device which he is cpposed to the liquor traffic to quit voting will soon patent, he will guarantee to raise the wrecked with the man who is in favor of the traffic. vessel. " She will come up," he asserts, " when my mag- nets are welded to her plates." It has already been fully Place temperance posters in store windows, on bill- demonstrated that from the depths of darkest sin the grace boards, and in all other available public places. of Christ as a mighty magnet is able to lift a man out Place temperance exhibits in show-windows, using a from the miry pit into which liquor has plunged him, and variety of charts, tables, mottoes, quotations, brochures, up into the bright sunlight of a free, unhampered life. models, and alcoholized organs. Have temperance rallies; sing prohibition songs. Get as many persons as possible to sign the pledge to abstain from the use of liquor and tobacco. Distribute thousands of pages of temperance tracts, pamphlets, and books. Organize the children into anti-cigarette leagues, and the Put a copy of this paper in the hand of every prisoner men into anti-tobacco clubs. in your State. Unite with others in the effort to put a copy in the hand of as many as possible of the 18,000,000 Educate girls to eschew absolutely in their boy or young boys in this country, and of the 13,000,000 young men be- men associates the use of tobacco or liquor. The charac- tween the ages of fourteen and twenty, all of whom will terless girl alone will condone either of these evil habits be tempt ed by liquor and tobacco agents. Solicit business in her companions. men to furnish funds for this educational campaign. Request your physician to refuse to prescribe alcohol as See that children in the public schools and the Sunday- a medicine. Dr. H. W. Wiley says: " Both as a means of schools are properly educated in regard to the evils of preventing disease and as a remedy, alcohol is rapidly fall- the tobacco and the liquor question. King Edward of ing into disrepute, so that it bids fair to become merely a England died of smokers' throat, and Mark Twain died memory in our materia medica and the pharmacopoeia." of smokers' heart. We can hardly believe that if these men had thorougily understood in youth the harmfulness See that public-school teachers at their institutes receive of tobacco, they would have taken up a habit that would scientific temperance instruction. in the end allow their names to pass down to future gen- Request your State and city boards of health to issue erations as really suicides. posters and bulletins on the nature of alcohol and tobacco. Concentrate your most effective weapons upon the task of persuading the man who is opposed to the liquor traffic Write to your State senators and representatives at to quit voting wi:h the man who is in favor of the traffic. Washington to vote for the passage of the bill to prohibit the manufacture and sale of alcoholic liquors as a bever- Exact obedience through the proper officials to the age. Pray daily for national Constitutional prohibition of statutes regulating or forbidding the use of these two the liquor traffic. curses to the nation's citizenship, liquor and tobacco. Encourage your town paper to reject all liquor and May you have no peace of mind until these things have tobacco advertisements. been accomplished. Zibini55ion of Cigarette innottert HERE was recently arrested in New York This young man claimed he was ignorant of the danger City a young man who had set fire to eight to which he was subjecting himself when he began houses, destroying $ioo,000 worth of prop- smoking. This is true of others; but there are many erty and ten human lives. In answer to an boys and young men who have had every opportunity to officer's question, he said know the seriousness of the use of tobacco. but who, despite this knowledge, take up the habit. A deplor blc sir, cigarettes have brought me to this. Ever since I was a boy, I have been crazy for them. And with this craving weakness of character, physical and moral, must be re- there came that other passion which I cannot understand,— an sponsible for such a course. overwhelming desire to set fire to something, — and I was forced to obey it. ffg E E With the close of 1913, a young man received the death Boys Wanted sentence in a Western court. He says of his dark crim- inal record: — One thousand boys, clean, honest, upright boys, to sell this special temperance number of the " Instructor "! The first step I took in the wrong path was when I was eight years old. I began smoking cigarettes. I kept tobacco Every time you sell one hundred papers you make six hidden about the house, and every opportunity I smoked. My dollars, and besides you are selling something that every- appetite for cigarettes grew constantly until now I smoke thirty body needs or wants, and which must do great good. Who a day. I drink but seldom. After getting into the cigarette will be the first to order five hundred? habit I began to gamble, then came bad women, robbery, and finally murder. A young man entered an Eastern college a fine athlete and absolutely free from vice. Early in his course he The Youth's Instructcr began the use of cigarettes, as many of the students were ISSUED TUESDAYS BY THE using them. He became a confirmed smoker, using hun- dreds of cigarettes a day. Drinking and other vices fol- REVIEW AND HERALD PUBLISHING ASSN., lowed. Finally he was so weakened from the constant TAKOMA PARK STATION, WASHINGTON, D. C. inhalation of the poison that he became a victim of con- sumption. On his way to California, hoping to prolong FANNIE DICKERSON CHASE EDITOR life for a few weeks, and possibly months, he said to a friend:— LXII FEBRUARY 3, 1914 No. 5 Just when I am ready to take my place in the world as a man among men, being fitted for it by education and some nat- ural ability, with a good famil‘, and wealth hack of me, I must Entered as sec'nd-class matter, August 14, 1o03, at the post-office lie down and die like a dog, and cigarettes have done it. at Washington, D. C., under the act of Congress of March ;, 1879.

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